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Quotes about Balance

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
- John Donne
If they be so two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other dar doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like the other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.
- John Donne
I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.
- Elton John
Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
- Brigham Young
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.
- Tullian Tchividjian
When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.
- Winston Churchill
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
- Alexander Hamilton
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
- Thomas Jefferson
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli
has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
- Jesse Jackson