Quotes About Balance

Pragmatism is cold comfort when millions of lives are in the balance," conceded Boucher. "It's a little like saying, 'Sorry, I can't rescue you from drowning until I finish waxing my car.'" The president chuckled

I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

I'm more of a dog person. But I admire cats and their ability to take so much while giving so little.

It's not easy being the Chosen One. Just ask Buffy Summers. Ask Harry Potter. And ask Zoey Redbird, the latest in this list of "lucky" candidates picked by fate to save the world from darkness- and oh yeah, find romance, keep their friends and maybe not flunk every class. In their spare time of course.

We must cast away by any contrivance, and cut out by fire and sword and contrivances of all kinds, disease from the body, ignorance from the soul, luxury from the belly, sedition from the state, discord from the family, excess from all things alike.

It is much better to take a little every day than some days to abstain wholly and on others to surfeit oneself.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

He weighs the volume in his hand; this one has been the center of the whirlwind. Then DRUMMOND notices the Bible on the JUDGE's bench. He picks up the Bible in his other hand; he looks from one volume to the other, balancing them thoughtfully, as if his hands were scales. He half-smiles, half-shrugs. Then DRUMMOND slaps the two books together and jams them in his brief case, side by side. Slowly, he climbs to the street level and crosses the empty square.

Don't look to the past in anger nor the future in fear, but around in awareness. —J

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

The Bible teaches both the sovereignty of God and the free moral choices of men with equal emphasis.

Just as the airplane must have both wings to fly, so we must exercise both discipline and dependence in the pursuit of holiness. Just as it is impossible for an airplane to fly with only one wing, so it is impossible for us to successfully pursue holiness with only dependence or discipline. We absolutely must have both.

Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason.

God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory.

One of the speaker's main points was that if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God's agenda. He pointed out that we tend to live under two agendas, ours and God's, and that the tension between them sets up stress.

There's two heads to every coin.

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

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