my world was delicately balanced,but the scales never hung…

“My world was delicately balanced, but the scales never hung even. When something improved, something else had to crumble.”

— Rebecca Donovan

the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

— Grace S. Richmond

This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of…

— Kenneth Clark

Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world…

— Charles Lindbergh

Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

— M. F. K. Fisher

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake…

— Val Kilmer

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

— Ovadia Yosef

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next…

— Jonathan Swift

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other…

— Peter Orszag

While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and…

— Jon Stewart

The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is…

— Rick Doblin

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire…

— Jewel

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

— Ron D. Burton

If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection…

— Terence Conran

There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on…

— Diana Gabaldon