“It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.” YearsWellsHas BeensJobsLastsThreeHalfBalanceDoctorsPatientAdministrationRomneyHalf A YearOver 50 Author:Jim Talent
“Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost one half, the balance would crumble. I need to be able to both play and create games.” IfsNeedsImportantPlayAbleGamesLostHalfSpecialBalanceCreatingVideoOne HalfLost Ones Author:Hidetaka Suehiro
“Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.” HalfMoralBalanceCreaturesAngelTasksMirrorsMonstersDisasterLegendsInvitesDualityTamed Author:Suetonius
“Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of golf. Professionals invariably trudge phlegmatically around the course - whatever emotions are seething within - with the grim yet placid and bored look of cowpokes, slack-bodied in their saddles, who have been tending the same herd for two months.” IfsLooksHas BeensTwoCoursesEmotionHalfEmotionalMonthsBalanceEssentialsBallsGolfRageMoodBoredIngredientsExcessCynicismHerdsGloomGrimTwo MonthsSaddlesBewildermentGolf BallPlacidSeething Author:George Plimpton
“Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.” GivingSaidProblemPurposeHalfMarriageLonelinessBalanceDietsDivorcedSock Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsStillsReasonRealityUsedFeltDifficultDealsHalfMediaBalanceOfficeHappeningsAbsolutesPressesObligationOfficialsReportsGossipPrivate LifeColumnsPublic LifeExaggeratedPublic OfficePublic Officials Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.” IfsWantFeelsWritingMeanPlaySpiritWishHalfWatchesNiceBalanceBattleGuiltyRelaxChocolateAfternoonFree SpiritBravo Author:Sarah Dessen
“One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hours of the film with one gun fight. It was trying to figure out the balance of how much an audience could take before they either became repulsed or desensitized or bored or just overwhelmed.” TryingFilmFightingThreeHoursChallengesHalfAudienceFiguresBalanceGunBoredOverwhelmedHalf HoursAssembling Author:Peter Berg
“What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.” InterestHalfLike YouBalanceArgumentSublimeOther HalfGrotesque Author:Zadie Smith
“I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so." "It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.” KnowsWellsMayMeanLightEyeGirlLinesBrainHalfKnow HowStupidOughtAmountBalanceNormalAccountsSpeciesBeesHer EyesMaintainingProvisionAllowanceBlokes Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.” WorldTwoHalfBalanceFemaleHarmonyChaosMalesFeminineGoddessBalancedMasculineYangYin And YangUnbalancedBalance Of PowerMasculine And FeminineGods And Goddesses Book:The Da Vinci Code: A Novel Source: The Da Vinci Code: A Novel