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.
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
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.
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.
You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.
What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.
American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.
Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.
If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.