| Author |
Quotes |
| Art Garfunkel | I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling. |
| Beryl Markham | In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned. |
| Bette Midler | I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. |
| Fran Lebowitz | Food is an important part of a balanced diet. |
| H Ross Perot | Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. |
| Henri Matisse | What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. |
| Henry R Luce | There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. |
| Horace Mann | Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery. |
| Ilka Chase | Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order. |
| James H McGavran | The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter. |
| Jane Rule | My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. |
| Jessye Norman | Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. |
| Jimmy Carter | I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president. |
| Joan Konner | Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over. |
| John Bright | If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure. |
| Julia Ward Howe | Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. |
| Kate Seredy | I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart But in the long run my books balance pretty well |
| Lillian Carter | Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family ticket. |
| Peter Latham | Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. |
| Peter Ustinov | Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. |
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