Quotes of: Delicate-balance Keyword

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Mindfulness describes a "state of becoming" that places the individual beyond judgment and definition.

Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain: Spring Devotions

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you do...

Chuck Schumer

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.

In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

Suffering "buys" something, and this something possesses a certain value for all of us, for common consciousness; by suffering we buy the right to judge.

In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

As we come into balance within ourselves and the all that is, we balance the past, future and our Earth.

Soul Skin, spiritual fiction by; Jan Porter: a spirited shaman's journey

You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.

Rick Riordan

I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost al...

Pat Toomey

You always want to have good balance. That's the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively is what gives you the c...

John Elway

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

Howard Dean

[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

Calcutta: Two Years in the City

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.

Mariano Rajoy

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

David Hume

Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

Evelyn Waugh

I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting.

James Bay

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Gordon Ramsay

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

Henry Rollins

Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take years.

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