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Balance Quotes


"With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing."


"Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance."


"It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated."


"You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important."


"Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established."


"What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."


"It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance."


"The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does."


"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance."


"Miracles are exceptions principles are the rules."


"Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties."


"What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget."


"The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form."


"We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season."


"I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing."


"But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors."


"The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all."


"I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other."


"We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us."


"For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do."


"One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made."


"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."


"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."


"We're more into sort of fluid structures that are simultaneously the most efficient, the most beautiful, and the most engineered. You know what I mean? We like the balance you can get in there."


"As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment."


"The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?"


"We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years."


"I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali."


"The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget."


"It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other."


"I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests."


"I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth."


"But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared."
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