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Balance Quotes


"Our lives are a picture of being overwhelmed by all kind of things going on in our lives and around us."


"Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain."


"The sun that warms is also the sun that burns."


"My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour."


"Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove."


"When you cry and laugh at the same time, you have reached a state of balance."


"If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned by its own weight."


"Life is a sea of sorrow in the midst of islands of happiness."


"With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'."


"Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration."


"In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique."


"Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success"


"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."


"The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content."


"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards."


"If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love."


"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."


"Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others."


"I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president."


"However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it."


"I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas."


"The sea, no matter how endless, depends on rivers."


"Spiritual highs help you overcome emotional lows."


"We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not."


"I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense."


"A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do."


"Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way."


"We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools."


"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed."


"I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance."


"In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side."


"The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance."
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