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I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing. (Quote by - Lynn Swann)

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)

If Wales win on the opening weekend, they could win the title but the loss of Colin Charvis is a big blow. It may tip the balance to England. (Quote by - Jonathan Davies)

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. (Quote by - Charlie Hunnam)

The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will. (Quote by - David Allman)

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. (Quote by - Plutarch)

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it. (Quote by - Serena Williams)

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)

Balance. The Ultimate Goal. (Quote by - Ricky Lankford)

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country. (Quote by - Amos Oz)

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. (Quote by - Tom DeLay)

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions. (Quote by - Henry L. Stimson)

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. (Quote by - Barbara De Angelis)

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. (Quote by - Lynn Abbey)

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. (Quote by - Rick Moody)

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries. (Quote by - Robert C. Solomon)

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances. (Quote by - Sandra Day O'Connor)

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance. (Quote by - Emerson Fittipaldi)

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance. (Quote by - Khandi Alexander)

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance. (Quote by - Alex Winter)

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. (Quote by - Marcus V. Pollio)

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence". (Quote by - Alva Myrdal)

All audiences should be slightly off balance. (Quote by - Richard Thompson)

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. (Quote by - H. Ross Perot)

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far. (Quote by - Andy Goldsworthy)

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act. (Quote by - Kelly Preston)

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. (Quote by - Raoul Vaneigem)

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance. (Quote by - Adolf Galland)

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. (Quote by - Prince Charles)

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind. (Quote by - Alexis Arguello)

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience. (Quote by - Thurston Moore)

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. (Quote by - Robert Fulghum)

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing. (Quote by - Mickey Rourke)

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged. (Quote by - Jennifer Lopez)

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. (Quote by - James M. Baldwin)

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well. (Quote by - Kate Seredy)

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. (Quote by - Joschka Fischer)

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful. (Quote by - Karolina Kurkova)

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance. (Quote by - Alain Prost)

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over. (Quote by - Joan Konner)

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. (Quote by - Patti Smith)

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. (Quote by - Samuel E. Morison)

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry. (Quote by - Helen Reddy)

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision. (Quote by - William Hurt)

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance. (Quote by - Heidi Klum)

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. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important. (Quote by - Andrew Shue)

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated. (Quote by - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi)

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. (Quote by - Michael Pollan)

Balance is overrated. (Quote by - Thomas Leonard)

Balance is beautiful. (Quote by - Miyoko Ohno )

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. (Quote by - Lascelles Abercrombie)

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. (Quote by - James Joyce)

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality. (Quote by - Julian Lennon)

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money. (Quote by - Johann Georg Zimmermann)

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies. (Quote by - Ray Liotta)

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made. (Quote by - Norman McLaren)

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises. (Quote by - Jason Statham)

Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy. (Quote by - Marilu Henner)

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. (Quote by - Alva Noto)

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. (Quote by - Toshihiko Fukui)

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move. (Quote by - Goh Chok Tong)

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing. (Quote by - Yakov Smirnoff)

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. (Quote by - Robin Gross)

So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments. (Quote by - Robert C. Solomon)

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. (Quote by - Peter Weir)

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. (Quote by - Donald Trump)

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance. (Quote by - Hattie McDaniel)

It's insane to try to balance the budget. (Quote by - William Vickrey)

I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government. (Quote by - Bill Scott)

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas. (Quote by - James Earl Jones)

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music. (Quote by - Joan Jett)

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me. (Quote by - Anthony Kiedis)

Carbohydrates are essential for good food balance. (Quote by - Sharron Davies)

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security. (Quote by - Bill Owens)

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time. (Quote by - Kenneth Lay)

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance. (Quote by - Johnny Thunders)

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions. (Quote by - Godfrey Reggio)

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. (Quote by - Fredrik Bajer)

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment. (Quote by - Ralph Merkle)

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance. (Quote by - Barbara Jordan)

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things. (Quote by - Christian Slater)

At times, it is difficult to keep a proper balance in our lives. But, over time, an improper balance will lead to problems. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)

But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors. (Quote by - Jim Cantalupo)

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth. (Quote by - Kevin Richardson)

When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up. (Quote by - Peter Hook)

I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair. (Quote by - Henri Matisse)

Balance is the key to my life, the ability to have new experiences and enjoying life to its fullest. On my free times I enjoy fireing it up being the ultimate party animal and at the same time I enjoy being a suzy homemaker. (Quote by - Felicia Tang)

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs. (Quote by - Jim Clyburn)

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. (Quote by - Adam Cummings)

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not. (Quote by - Joschka Fischer)

Most of us are trying to balance work, home, and a family life. We tend not to accept the early symptoms of burnout and carry on our daily lives. (Quote by - Yasmeen Abdur-Rahman)

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them. (Quote by - Daniel Keys Moran)

Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well. (Quote by - Irene Cara)

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress. (Quote by - Patty Murray)

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen. (Quote by - John Ralston Saul)

The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter. (Quote by - James H. McGavran)

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)

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. (Quote by - Peter Latham)

Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing. (Quote by - J. W. Jepson)

In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique. (Quote by - Sherilyn Fenn)

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)

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. (Quote by - Beryl Markham)

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cosy up to power: We're supposed to be the check and balance on government. (Quote by - Amy Goodman)

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art. (Quote by - Max Bill)

Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier. (Quote by - Susan Sarandon)

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. (Quote by - Laurell K. Hamilton)

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. (Quote by - Giacomo Casanova)

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them. (Quote by - Patricia Richardson)

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption. (Quote by - Sherwood Boehlert)

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia. (Quote by - Schuyler Fisk)

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark. (Quote by - Stephen Gardiner)

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time. (Quote by - John Frusciante)

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. (Quote by - James Baldwin)

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. (Quote by - Donna Karan)

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet. (Quote by - Lord Chandos)

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark. (Quote by - Carter Burwell)

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance. (Quote by - Ruud van Nistelrooy)

When our life is out of balance we have stress! Balance in your life does bring less stress to your life! (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports. (Quote by - Joan Cusack)

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. (Quote by - Henri Matisse)

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. (Quote by - Horace Mann)

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed. (Quote by - Joan D. Vinge)

Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health. (Quote by - Sally Schneider)

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. (Quote by - Philip Green)

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. (Quote by - Joan D. Vinge)

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. (Quote by - Jane Rule)

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while. (Quote by - Ray Liotta)

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony. (Quote by - Xun Zi)

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology. (Quote by - Catherine Deneuve)

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. (Quote by - Eleanor Clift)

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. (Quote by - Robert C. Solomon)

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. (Quote by - Annie Proulx)

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain. (Quote by - Celine Dion)

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. (Quote by - Jessica Savitch)

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over. (Quote by - Nigella Lawson)

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. (Quote by - George Canning)

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget. (Quote by - Michael Bloomberg)

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. (Quote by - Princess Masako)

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race. (Quote by - John Naisbitt)

Tolerance is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively. (Quote by - Tommy Shaw)

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany. (Quote by - Douglas Hurd)

I'm not suggesting you deny or suppress your emotions, but just discover for yourself what it takes for you to handle your emotions and stay balanced. (Quote by - Wendy Hearn)

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. (Quote by - May Sarton)

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end. (Quote by - Olivia Newton-John)

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family ticket. (Quote by - Lillian Carter)

Balance is the enemy of art. (Quote by - Richard Eyre)

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. (Quote by - Euripides)

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. (Quote by - Thomas Friedman)

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form. (Quote by - Stephen Gardiner)

Families are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. (Quote by - Anais Nin)

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. (Quote by - George Santayana)

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement. (Quote by - Warren Farrell)

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week. (Quote by - Joseph Gies)

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality. (Quote by - Clare Short)

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance. (Quote by - Bryan Miller)

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education. (Quote by - Tipper Gore)

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying. (Quote by - Carre Otis)

If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility. (Quote by - Jack Welch)

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. (Quote by - Siegfried Lenz)

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research. (Quote by - Juan Cole)

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records. (Quote by - Maurice Gibb)

Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region. (Quote by - Kim Dae Jung)

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them. (Quote by - Marc Andreessen)

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them. (Quote by - Thomas Kinkade)

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. (Quote by - John Bright)

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. (Quote by - John Locke)

The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization. (Quote by - Lawrence Eagleburger)

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. (Quote by - Jennifer Lopez)

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. (Quote by - Henry R. Luce)

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life. (Quote by - Edie Falco)

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that. (Quote by - Nicole Kidman)

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. (Quote by - Gabriela Sabatini)

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. (Quote by - Ilka Chase)

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. (Quote by - Linda Hamilton)

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance. (Quote by - Clifton Fadiman)

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling. (Quote by - Yakov Smirnoff)

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas. (Quote by - Mac Thornberry)

We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season. (Quote by - Lamar Hunt)

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. (Quote by - Gregory Peck)

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important. (Quote by - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi)

Quite frankly, I don't think time is the problem. The real problem is the number of activities or tasks that we take on. A sign of our time is that we forget how to say no, and take on far too many things. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)

I think it will help people have a better work-life balance, that's really important - that's the centre ground for me, it's the issues people care about in their lives. (Quote by - David Cameron)

Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do! (Quote by - Kiana Tom)

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment. (Quote by - Tony Shalhoub)

Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other. (Quote by - Richard G. Scott)

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. (Quote by - Mary Archer)

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important. (Quote by - Jamelia)

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion. (Quote by - Donatella Versace)

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. (Quote by - David Frum)

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. (Quote by - Maxwell Maltz)

We need to maintain a proper balance in our life by allocating the time we have. There are occasions where saying no is the best time management practice there is. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)

I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand. (Quote by - William H. Hunt)

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. (Quote by - Gustav Stresemann)

I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. (Quote by - Bette Midler)

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers. (Quote by - Armstrong Williams)

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job. (Quote by - Ronnie Hawkins)

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers. (Quote by - Rick Boucher)

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. (Quote by - Davy Crockett)

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. (Quote by - Robert Fulghum)

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem. (Quote by - Arthur Keith)

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed. (Quote by - Lajos Kossuth)

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. (Quote by - Chris Chocola)

If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life. (Quote by - Josephine Rathbone)

What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget. (Quote by - Wilbur Mills)

The boats are streamlined, advertisement splattered, potential coffins, and are controlled on a knife-edge balance of courage and sense. (Quote by - Simon Barnes)

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. (Quote by - W B Yeats)

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it. (Quote by - Joseph Butler)

In fact, everyone should take time out once in a while to recharge and revitalize their energy. The key is to have a balanced life. (Quote by - Michael Lee)

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion. (Quote by - Andrew Wyeth)

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your step as you walk the tightrope of life. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. (Quote by - Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont)

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. (Quote by - Jessye Norman)

I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed. (Quote by - John Romero)

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has. (Quote by - Alia Shawkat)

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. (Quote by - Bernice Johnson Reagon)

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. (Quote by - William Vickrey)

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling. (Quote by - Art Garfunkel)

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. (Quote by - Herbert Read)

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance. (Quote by - Trevor Dunn)

We're more into sort of fluid structures that are simultaneously the most efficient, the most beautiful, and the most engineered. You know what I mean? We like the balance you can get in there. (Quote by - Sean Booth)

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care. (Quote by - Howard Baker)

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other. (Quote by - Chris Patten)

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. (Quote by - Mario Lopez)

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. (Quote by - Maurice Barres)

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China. (Quote by - Laurent Fabius)

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. (Quote by - George Orwell)

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. (Quote by - Mike Rutherford)

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do. (Quote by - Shannon Miller)

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts. (Quote by - Louise Slaughter)

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service. (Quote by - Hillary Rodham Clinton)

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red. (Quote by - Jo Ann Emerson)

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance. (Quote by - Kenneth H. Cooper)

Balance in your life between work and your personal life is very important. Without balance, you eventually burnout negatively affecting your performance at work. (Quote by - Byron)

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. (Quote by - Amy Bloom)

I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance. (Quote by - Wynonna Judd)

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all. (Quote by - E. P. Thompson)

Everything in life... has to have balance. (Quote by - Donna Karan)

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. (Quote by - Adam Acone )

The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users. (Quote by - Hilary Rosen)

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. (Quote by - George Wald)