Quotes About Balance

We push aside work that takes long—novels, poetry collections, biographies, articles, memoirs—to write e-mail messages that take little time while complaining we have no time to write.

Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said.

It often happens that our zeal is at variance with our understanding.

To curb further abuse, Hamilton recommended a Supreme Court that would consist of twelve judges holding lifetime offices on good behavior. In this manner, each branch would maintain a salutary distance from popular passions.

My suggestion is to err in getting what seems at present too much room rather than not enough.

Whenever his ambition was about to devour him, his conscience urged restraint.

Washington instinctively trod the fine line between showiness and austerity, defining a characteristic style of understated elegance.

Hamilton believed that revolutions ended in tyranny because they glorified revolution as a permanent state of mind. A spirit of compromise and a concern with order were needed to balance the quest for liberty.

control the flow of gold into and out of the United States.

Pierpont was already urging him to cut back his schedule.

and the power balance within the Morgan empire began to tip from London to New York.

You must distribute it faster than it grows! If you do not, it will crush you and your children and your children's children.

And both sides would prove right.

he was frustrated that he couldn't give money away quickly enough to keep pace with his mounting income.

Give all power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all power to the few, they will oppress the many.

I think you like money better than anything else in the whole world, and I do not. I like to have a little fun along with business as I go through life.

I lose all taste for the pursuits of ambition. I sigh for nothing but the company of my wife and my baby.

A laconic man, he liked to canvass everyone's opinion before expressing his own and then often crafted a compromise to maintain cohesion.

American Presbyterians strove to balance a high view of God with a low view of humanity.

I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.

I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.

Harry Truman once said: "Find me a one-armed economist, because every one I know always says, 'Well, on the other hand . . .

where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees — you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?

Destroying the systems destroys the chaos.