456 quotes found
“If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.”
“I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.”
“To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably bet...”
“The goddess smiled. "You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn. When Dionysus was made a god, I gave up my throne for him. It was the only way to av...”
“Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen.”
“Sometimes a pad on the back or just a simple word of comfort is all that it takes to bring someone under heavy stress back to balance.”
“If the universe is trying to maintain balance, we must aid this by ensuring that Good is not enjoyed excessively. Or else the universe will re-balance itself by creating Evil to counteract Good. Th...”
“Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever no past, present, and future, no de...”
“Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.”
“Don't confuse having a career with having a life.”
“You dont get to break someone's heart and think everything is fine just because you say sorry. That's just not fair.”
“Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.”
“There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, acce...”
“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. Were each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into somethin...”
“I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.”
“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
“The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himse...”
“what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is a...”
“Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.”
“Don't confuse symmetry with balance.”
