“You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.” PeopleWayWellsSaidMatterWantedBalanceMarriedExpectedReactionsSettlingAwakeRelaxBucksSettling DownHappily MarriedOur WeddingBogart Author:Lauren Bacall
“Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.” SoulActionLossArmsBalanceReactionsUpsetEquilibriumFlailing Book:The Ordeal of Change Source: The Ordeal of Change
“Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood against the excesses in politics. He didn't want to unleash a lot of nationalist, populistic reaction. He wanted to try to figure out how to get back into that balance that has served America so well over our entire nationhood.” WantTryingWellsWantedAmericaRememberEconomySawsFiguresBalanceReactionsGet BackExcessTeddy Author:Hillary Clinton