Balance Quotes

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.

But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

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.

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.

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.

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.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

I've always believed in having a sense of balance and stealth.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.