Balancing Quotes

172 quotes by 163 authors

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue?… — Gustave Flaubert
Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He… — Libba Bray
The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath… — Christopher Barzak
A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could… — Bette Greene
I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness. — Walter Benjamin
We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in… — Dan Simmons
This one is from the immortals series i cant remember what book. Damen to Ever While we may judge things as good or bad, karma… — Alyson Noel
Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve,… — Dean Koontz
I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two.… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those… — Cecelia Ahern
Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient… — Holly Black
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men,… — Leonard Cohen
I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found. — Billy Collins
Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in. "You," I said knocking it off his face. "Me!" He answered cheerfully. — Kiersten White
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are… — Paula Poundstone
Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you… — Laini Taylor
â€¦balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found. — Billy Collins

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