“We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years” YearsRealStatesProblemGoneNeededBalanceImportanceSouthChecksAccountabilityTransparencyCarolinaSouth CarolinaNeeded Someone Author:Gwen Ifill
“Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.” IfsActionFilmGoneBalanceDramaMetsDirectVisualsEpic Author:Hiroyuki Sanada
“Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.” IfsCitiesGoneFiguresBalanceExcitedSuspectsBoresSheetsBalance Sheets Author:Anne Robinson
“Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security.” HouseWhiteLibertyGoneSecurityJudgingBalanceJudgmentIndependentCourtFinalsWhite HouseNational Security Author:Edward Kennedy
“We've gone down a road to which we don't have the answers for. That's why we have the schizophrenic decisions coming out of the Supreme Court that don't balance logically with one versus another decision.” DecisionAnswersGoneBalanceCourtSupremeComing OutSupreme CourtVersusSchizophrenic Author:Tom Coburn
“I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them and (they are) in perfect alignment. So those people must have had some hydraulics or something. You take 20 men, put them around a big stone, their legs would get in the way. Even if they could lift it, 20 pairs of legs hitting against each other would throw it off balance. And they would not have it in exact alignment. Not even a fraction of an inch off.” PeopleIfsMenWayBigsTogetherForcePerfectGoneBalanceStonesLegsCardsLiftsPairsInchesHittingPyramidsFractionsAlignmentPlaying Cards Author:John Henrik Clarke
“I never took reds or Quaaludes to balance out the coke. So when it got to be four in the morning and the gram was three quarters gone, I'd start wishing it was nine o'clock and hoping the guy got up early. But, of course, he didn't sleep either, so there was no sweat. During all those years, I was always looking forward to the next snort or the next guy I could score from.” YearsGuyThreeCoursesNextWishSleepMorningGoneFourBalanceNineClockScoreSweatQuartersLooking ForwardCokeUp EarlyAlways Looking ForwardQuaaludes Author:George Carlin
“That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time” WellsMadeMovingMotherNextFeltGoneWindBalanceCostStonesAddDancingCornersSmallestNext TimeBackseatTrivial ThingsMaybe Next Time Author:Joanne Harris
“I will be the answer, At the end of the line, I will be there for you, While you take the time, In the burning of uncertainty, I will be your solid ground, I will hold the balance, If you can't look down. If it takes my whole life, I won't break, I won't bend, It will all be worth it, Worth it in the end, Cause I can only tell you what I know, That I need you in my life, When the stars have all gone out, You'll still be burning so bright...” IfsKnowsNeedsLooksStillsI CanEndsWholeStarsLinesAnswersBreakGoneBalanceWhole LifeBurningUncertaintyWorth ItNeed YouBecause I CanI Need You Author:Sarah McLachlan
“Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.” WorldWayAgePainPastNightStarsCausesHoursHurtGoneTroubleSkyCreationBalanceSorrowBedQuietQuittingBoatClockBotherSettlingStreamsAddressesSilverMutualLightningWrapsIncidentsGrindTributeMilky WayWhy BotherTelegramsDaily Grind Book:Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy
“You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.” PeopleThinkingShouldHas BeensWholeMightHappensEarthFallGrowsGoneMinutesBirthBalanceShould HaveDiedIllStrikesMy TimeAirplaneLightningCrashColleaguesMight Have BeenBirth And DeathTime On EarthParts Of A WholeAirplane Crashes Author:Mitch Albom