#lance

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. ↗

— Steve Allen

#bank #businessmen #checks #compromised #crooked

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#balance #balance sheets #brand #brand new #building

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. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#between #blessed #both #communication #cursed

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

#animal #both #dog #even #fifth

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. ↗

— Howard Baker

#balance #care #changing #each #education

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#activities #age #choice #church #dry

I am a Libra so I have to balance things. ↗

— Mark Viduka

#balance #i #i am #things

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. ↗

— Maimonides

#balance #deed #destroyed #does #equal

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God. ↗

— Catherine McAuley

#clearly #designs #god #guidance #here

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable. ↗

— Craig T. Nelson

#armstrong #done #else #guy #heroes