Pastoral Resources

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.