#lance

Lo sguardo delle donne assomiglia a certi congegni tranquilli in apparenza ma formidabili. Vi si passa vicino tutti i giorni pacificamente e impunemente, senza dubitare di nulla. Viene il momento in cui ci si dimentica anche che quella cosa è là. Si va, si viene, si sogna, si parla, si ride. A un tratto ci si sente presi! E' finita. Il congegno vi ha preso, lo sguardo vi ha catturato. Vi ha preso, non importa dove, né come, per una parte qualsiasi del vostro pensiero, per una distrazione. Un concatenamento di forze misteriose si impadronisce di voi. Vi dibattete invano. Non ci sono più soccorsi umani possibili. Cadete di ingranaggio in ingranaggio, di angoscia in angoscia, di tortura in tortura, voi, il vostro spirito, le vostre fortune, il vostro avvenire, l'anima vostra; e, a seconda che siate in potere di una creatura cattiva o di un nobile cuore, non uscirete da quella spaventosa macchina che sfigurato dalla vergogna o trasfigurato dalla passione. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love #women #love

I've always been known for bold flavors and rustic cooking, but there is another side to me. As you evolve as a cook, you understand life and how serious it is. There comes a point where there's got to be a better balance. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#another #balance #been #better #bold

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

The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#balance #balls #fact #foreign #freedom

A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences. ↗

— Alan Light

#aspiration #balance #band #bump #differences

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter. ↗

— Judith Martin

#e-mail #give #glance #letter #more

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

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. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#always #anymore #anything #balance #certain

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. ↗

— Alva Noto

#between #comprehension #emotional #i #intellectual