“Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.” FeelingsDangerousBecomingBalanceConflictUniversalProfessionPoetry IsResolutionShiftingUltras Author:May Sarton
“When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingKindPersonsI CanDoneMomentsLosesAttentionHappenedDangerousBalanceDrunkWowSuccess In LifeDetachmentGreat Person Author:Robert Greene
“A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!” IfsTryingWellsMayLittlesI CanHomeMightAsksEasySoundSimpleCrazyDangerousBalanceTraditionPleasantNecksTunesVillageRoofScratchesOne WordFiddleFiddlersFiddler On The Roof Author:Sheldon Harnick
“Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard to imagine a Democratic member of Congress urging constituents to be "armed and dangerous" without being ostracized; but Representative Michele Bachmann, who did just that, is a rising star in the G.O.P.” HardStarsImagineDangerousBalanceMembersDemocraticCongressRisingToxicRepresentativesRhetoricPretenseConstituents Author:Paul Krugman
“When you have the countries like Germany, China, and Russia decline, and be replaced by others, that's when systemic wars start. That's when it gets dangerous, because they haven't yet reached a balance. So Germany united in 1871 and all hell broke loose. Japan rose in the early 20th century, and then you had chaos. So we're looking at a systemic shift. Be ready for war.” WarCountryUnitedHellCenturyDangerousHavensReadyBalanceRoseChaosChinaRussiaBrokeGermanyJapanDeclineReplaced20th Century Author:George Friedman
“But every time new powers emerge they have to find their balance. New powers are emerging, old powers are declining. It's not that process that's dangerous, it's the emerging position that's dangerous.” ProcessDangerousPositionBalanceEmerging Author:George Friedman
“We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.” ThinkingWayKindGovernmentIndividualIssuesSecurityDangerousBalanceApproachPercentBurdenHarmTerroristEnormousPrivacyOur SocietyPrivacy And Security Author:Barack Obama
“Nowadays it's a big issue in Europe because you are forced to describe yourself by your culture, and you begin to forget about yourself, your identity. You're supposed to act in certain ways. You're limited. When you try to go outside the lines to go into some other garden, then you're blamed and stoned because it's like blasphemy. When we talk about culture, we have to see those two sides to it. When we ignore it, it's dangerous. When we talk about it too much, it's also dangerous. We have to have a moderate balance.” TryingCultureForgetDangerousIdentityBalanceGardenBeing YourselfAbout YourselfBlasphemy Author:Burhan Sonmez
“If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.” IfsThinkingWantFeelingsFilmStrongDangerousBalanceUpsetContrastSewing Book:David Lynch: Interviews Source: David Lynch: Interviews
“But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.” KnowsWorldNeedsEvilOne ThingDangerousBalanceShakesSandGood And EvilGrainWizardsEquilibriumPebblesGrains Of SandSummoning Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.” SaidStillsTwoHandsEyeFacesHonestLove YouDangerousBalanceHis EyesTruthfulDangerous ThingsChloeTwo HandsSomberDeclarations Of Love Book:Black Ice Source: Black Ice