Balance Quotes

• We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Spending
  • Budgets
  • Deficit

• I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Growth
  • Balance

• Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Balance
  • Taste
  • Fit

• If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Imagination
  • Riches

• American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

  

  Kim Dae Jung
  • Power
  • American
  • Balance

• I start every morning off with a green juice, because I think it's really important to be alkalined, and then I work out. We teach people that you need to find that balance and that what you put into your body is directly affecting your health.

  

  Yael Cohen
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• The Government espouses the concept of sustainable economic development. Stable prosperity can be achieved throughout the world provided the environment is nutured and safeguarded. Protecting this balance of nature is therefore one of the great challenges of the late Twentieth Century.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • World
  • Great
  • Nature

• Let's be clear: raising taxes during a very slow recovery is likely to lead to another recession, and it will do absolutely nothing to balance the budget.

  

  John Fleming
  • Balance
  • Recovery

• How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Freedom
  • Balance
  • Expectation

• 'Cats have no souls,' Hamilton said morbidly, watching his tomcat avidly feed. 'The most majestic cat in the universe would balance a carrot on his head for a bite of pork liver.'

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Cat

• Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Joy
  • Christ
  • Victorius

• You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Sense
  • Harmony
  • Reference

• With you I anticipate the important share which the colonies must soon have in regulating the political balance. They are striding fast to independence, and ere long will build an empire upon the ruins of Great Britain, will adopt its constitution purged of its impurities, and from an experience of its defects will guard against those evils which have wasted its vigor and brought it to an untimely end.

  

  William Hooper
  • Ruins
  • Empire
  • Colonies

• I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Balance
  • Minister
  • Managing

• But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Pretty
  • Energy
  • Trust

• Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Irony
  • Punishes

• I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Balance

• The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter.

  

  Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Islamic

• If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Balance

• I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.

  

  Kevin Richardson
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Balance

• It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman.

  

  Peter Weir
  • Balance

• Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven't actually generated themselves.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Money
  • Power
  • Control

• Accenture has long been a champion of inclusion and diversity and, specifically, gender balance at every level of our organization, including our board of directors.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Long
  • Organization
  • Diversity

• If you look at my track record as government chief scientific advisor, I've always recognized that all of the sciences are important to all of research, and we need a balance.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Important
  • Balance

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