#lance

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#balance #certain #civilization #civilized #civilized man

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like. ↗

— Pippa Evans

#blood #feels #i #knows #like

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart. ↗

— Nancy Thayer

#break #girl #glance #heart #how

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders. ↗

— Michael Medved

#behavior #beyond #bipolar #breakdown #disorders

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#become #important #important things #make #norm

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#between #busy #feeling #give #important

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#finding-yourself #inspirational #need #satisfaction #truth

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. ↗

— Machado de Assis

#evil #good #art

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." [Dissenting, Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966)] ↗

— William O. Douglas

#freedom #government #privacy #surveillance #age

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things. ↗

— Elaine Scarry

#beauty #world #beauty