Balk Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

• Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the… — Sun Tzu
• I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music — Smokey Robinson
• I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make… — Wislawa Szymborska
• There are only two guidelines in good sex, Don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and dont… — Alex Comfort
• I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write… — Anne Tyler
• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of… — Renata Adler
• I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule. — Ron Luciano
• The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and… — Trevor Treharne
• The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field… — Wendell Berry
• Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do… — Andre Gide
• If your men grow weary of the work or balk at obedience, you must bear with them. Get what you can gently from them. True,… — Vincent de Paul
• I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you… — Edith Sitwell
• Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who… — Fred Barnes
• A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big… — Robert Carlyle
• Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it… — Amy Tan
• I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus: — Laurence Sterne
• When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When… — Russell Pearce
• People are known by the way they walk, talk and balk. — Vikrant Parsai
• Instilling the right culture almost always takes time. And inevitably there will be some who balk against your standards. But, you must have the courage… — Bill Walsh

Who Wrote These Balk Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 19 Balk Quotes as follows:

• 1 Balk Quote by Robert Carlyle
• 1 Balk Quote by Amy Tan
• 1 Balk Quote by Laurence Sterne
• 1 Balk Quote by Russell Pearce
• 1 Balk Quote by Vikrant Parsai
• 1 Balk Quote by Bill Walsh
• 1 Balk Quote by Sun Tzu
• 1 Balk Quote by Smokey Robinson
• 1 Balk Quote by Wislawa Szymborska
• 1 Balk Quote by Alex Comfort
• 1 Balk Quote by Anne Tyler
• 1 Balk Quote by Renata Adler
• 1 Balk Quote by Ron Luciano
• 1 Balk Quote by Trevor Treharne
• 1 Balk Quote by Wendell Berry
• 1 Balk Quote by Andre Gide
• 1 Balk Quote by Vincent de Paul
• 1 Balk Quote by Edith Sitwell
• 1 Balk Quote by Fred Barnes