#balance

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#body #bold #breaking #contracts #curve

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#bone #certain #certain way #could #cut

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#because #chaos #dangerous #hysterical #idealism

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#balance #balances #branches #check #checking

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#balanced #beauty #body #comes #listen

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#before #bottom #bottom line #budget #challenges

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#also #anyone #balance #control #else

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#fashion #i #like #use #versace

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#extreme #hospital #i #imbalance #lead

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#balances #devices #diplomacy #during #fascism