Balk Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule.
— Ron Luciano
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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People are known by the way they walk, talk and balk.
— Vikrant Parsai
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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: