Balance Quotes
2349 Balance quotes by 1667 unique authors
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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
— Aberjhani
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Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as…
— William A. Dembski
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It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.
— Eve Babitz
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It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
— Elaine Scarry
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Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.
— K.P. Yohannan
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The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on…
— Dean Koontz
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The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking…
— Peter Høeg
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as…
— George Eliot
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Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.
— Sandy Fussell
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When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of…
— David Eagleman
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The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body…
— Jane Smiley
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Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a…
— Deepak Chopra
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Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.
— Art Garfunkel
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
— Orison Swett Marden
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
— Stephen Covey
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Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
— Jessye Norman
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What I dream of is an art of balance.
— Henri Matisse
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There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
— Olivia Newton-John
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
— Kate Seredy
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