#balance

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. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#balance of power #between #democracy #elites #imbalance

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first. ↗

— Bridgette Wilson

#career #doing #family #first #happiest

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#border #both #committed #course #eastern

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety. ↗

— Bronowski

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Balance is overrated. ↗

— Thomas Leonard

#overrated

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. ↗

— Siegfried Lenz

#balance #comes #decades #embarrassment #into

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#come #country #custodians #driven #english

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. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#appease #balance #business #career #i

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience. ↗

— David Lynch

#anyone #balance #could #dangerous #even

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#beam #exercise #floor #i #i do