Quotes About Balance

When the word moderation becomes a dirty word we have some soul searching to do.

Broadly put, philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

He drank no hard liquor but loved wine, taking perhaps three glasses a day.42 He did not smoke. When he received gifts of Havana cigars from well-wishers, he passed them along to friends.43

The federal budget had last been in balance under President Johnson. Since then, federal outlays had outpaced federal revenues at an ever-rising rate.

The search for the point of temperate power between competing elements of life—the national government and the states, the states and the people—was far from over.

To be tall and forbidding might command respect for a time, but not affection. To be overly familiar might command affection for a time, but not respect.

The way to stand the "long strain on the temper" is to embrace compromise, seek balance, and strive to serve the national interest, which will be, in the fullness of time, in the personal historical interest of the individual president himself.

From 8 to 10 o'clock, practice music.16 From 10 to 1, dance one day and draw another. From 1 to 2, draw on the day you dance, and write a letter the next day. From 3 to 4, read French. From 4 to 5, exercise yourself in music. From 5 till bed-time, read English, write, etc.

The perfect should not be the enemy of the good...compromise is the oxygen of democracy.

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I thought about my own over-anxious brain, my own sort of madness. Was it a more powerful engine in my life than my rationality?

She summarized: "So. Don't get shitfaced, don't fist her ass, enjoy.

We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

Often, no sooner would the mind begin to scale the heights of Mt. Knowledge than it would receive a frantic call from body base camp, demanding it return to oversee Operation Masturbate.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

You spent so much time being a hostess you forgot to be a woman. And now the time is right for making love, but your vagina is a mess. I've been there... and it's not a good thing. You have got to remember Party Rule #1: There is no party as important as the party you're about to throw in your vagina. -- Jon Stewart, Martha Stewart's Vagina

If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.

She was 3/4 perfection and 1/4 broken glass.

It had been almost 7 o'clock, the end of a long working day. Of course he should've been at home with Emily by then, but that evening - as on many other evenings - he had told her that he needed to work late, not so that he could slip away and spend a few hours with his mistress (Benjamin would never have a mistress), but so that he could snatch 30 minutes solitude alone with a book and his thoughts before coming home to the deeper, more oppressive solitude of his shared domestic life.

In quanto a lei, sapeva anche di leggere più di quanto fosse sano, di riporre troppe aspettative nella lettura, di avere una sorta di ossessione nevrotica per la letteratura e i suoi presunti benefici sul piano morale.

Sometimes there can be more to life than making a profit, Dorothy.

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.