Quotes About Balance

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in.

the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Rest of my life is more important to me than politics

Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].