How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
Thomas Kempis

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
Joseph Butler

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
Joan D. Vinge

I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
William H. Hunt

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
William Butler Yeats

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.
Kevin Richardson

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
Chris Patten

I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.
John Sununu

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Zig Ziglar

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.
Bill Owens

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
George Canning

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
Martin Scorsese

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
Serena Williams

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.
Alexis Arguello

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
Juan Cole

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Joschka Fischer

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.
Helen Reddy

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

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
Carter Burwell