“The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we go, this person just died, end of book.' And with the end of the series, you're very conscious of all the plotlines that were left hanging. There's a balance there to wrap those up but still leave it exciting.” KnowsPersonsStillsBookEndsLeftNiceLike YouBalanceConsciousExcitingDiedSeriesWrapsNice ThingsCliffhangerLeft Hanging Author:Richelle Mead
“Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.” MindReligionJesusLeftSecretChristianityToo MuchSweetBalanceMethodIntuitionCatholicismGreat PowerLeft OutProtestantismReasonableness Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible
“Ah, what balance is needed at the edges of such an abyss. I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet. What to do but, like Michelangelo's Adam, put my hand out into unknown space, hoping for the reciprocating touch?” HandsLeftSpacePlanetsNeededBalanceEdgesSurfaceAdamAbyssLeft Alone Author:R. S. Thomas
“I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.” MindLeftBalanceLettersWeightBillsDistractedUndoneSupermarkets Author:Sadie Jones
“He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy. He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of the ball. I just like watching him hit.” WantRealLeftBalanceBallsCopiesSwingsSmoothLeft Handed Author:Jorge Posada
“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.” YearsWarCountryProblemBigsGovernmentChoicesLeftAttentionOur LivesHeardEconomicBalanceEconomicsPaidAdversityMovedSouthEastCivil WarReconciliationBig ProblemsVoicelessBalance Of Power Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“From the Israeli perspective, the fear is that if pressure is off of Iran, Israel would be left having to accept the balance of power in the region significantly shifting toward Iran. It's not an existential threat, but it would definitely be a problem for Israel.” IfsProblemWould BeLeftAcceptingPerspectiveBalancePressureThreatIsraelRegionsIranExistentialShiftingIsraeliBalance Of Power Author:Trita Parsi
“We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.” ThinkingNeedsKindSaidTwoArtistLeftStuffChildhoodSeriousLike YouBalanceHealthyHusbandOur ChildrenCompetitionSingersComedianMy HusbandFunny StuffHealthy Competition Author:Rachael MacFarlane
“The number one success in music supervision is when you can satisfy everybody on every level, creatively and in terms of the budget. That's when I'm most stoked, when we can balance the left-brained stuff and the right-brained stuff.” LeftStuffTermLevelsNumbersBalanceBudgetsSupervision Author:Liza Richardson
“I realized that we're now at a point of self-reference with the Internet culture that there's almost no there left, you know? It's important to make new things. It's important to make culture, rather than simply reference it. I love a good cultural reference, and it's one of the great joys in my life, but it has to all be in balance with the core job, which is to make something new. And that sort of brings me around to why I started talking about my fondness for marijuana.” KnowsImportantSelfJobsJoyCultureLeftTalkingInternetBalanceI RealizedCoreSomething NewMarijuanaNew ThingsGreat JoyFondnessInternet Culture Author:John Hodgman
“We have to do more to make it easier for parents to balance work and family. If you left college with a ton of loans, it`s not enough just to make college more affordable. You need help right now with the debt you already have.” IfsNeedsEnoughHelpingLeftParentCollegeBalanceEasierRight NowDebtLoanAffordableNeed Help Author:Hillary Clinton
“The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.” LeftNaturalPerfectPrinciplesBalanceFinalsFarmingLeft AlonePesticidesPerfect Balance Author:Masanobu Fukuoka
“When Ruth Bader Ginsburg came in front of the Senate and was approved 96-3 to be on the Supreme Court to replace conservative justice Byron White. This is in 1993.Now, Justice Ginsburg, it was noted earlier, was a general counsel for the ACLU, certainly a liberal group. It was abundantly clear during the confirmation hearing that Ginsburg would swing the balance of the court to the left.But because President [Bill] Clinton won the election and because Justice Ginsburg clearly had the intellectual ability and integrity to serve on the court, she was confirmed.” LeftPresidentJusticeAbilityWhiteClearGroupsFrontsBalanceIntegrityIntellectualElectionBillsCourtClintonConservativeHearingSupremeSenateSwingsSupreme CourtApprovedConfirmationRuthByronPresident Bill Clinton Author:Sam Brownback
“Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.” PeopleWayWantedCoursesLeftBalanceBuiltGolfEtcGolf CourseDoing Right Author:Jack Nicklaus
“Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.” ChildrenEndsDreamRealityWould BeSufferingDiesFallLeftMemoriesDarkLossCitiesGraceBalanceEternalUltimateRingsRedemptionDawnMortalityLeft AloneRedeemedHallwaysMarshesDark Dreams Author:Mark Helprin
“"Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games," Peeta says. "How you acted." "Not all of it," I say, tightly holding onto my flowers. "Then how much? No, forget that. I guess the real question is what's going to be left when we get home?" he says. "I don't know. The closer we get to District Twelve, the more confused I get," I say. He waits, for further explanation, but none's forthcoming. "Well, let me know when you work it out," he says, and the pain in his voice is palpable.” IfsKnowsWellsRealHomeHandsPainGamesLeftWaitingVoiceForgetStepsFlowerBalanceLet MeExplanationConfusedWorking ItTwelvePeetaKatnissReal QuestionsForthcoming Author:Suzanne Collins