“If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre.” IfsThinkingWantWritingYearsKindTwoEnoughWholeSeemsLastsOrderExistenceDoorsCoupleBalanceCreaturesMeetingsLifetimeUpsetEtcWorking ItDistractionDelicateMediocreBourgeoisTwo DaysWeighing Author:May Sarton
“On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily on the negative side, then I get very scared and just think about eternal damnation and how unpleasant that would be.” ThinkingFeelsWould BeSidesBalanceEternalNegativeScaredKarmaNot AfraidDamnationWeighingAfraid Of DeathNot Afraid Of Death Author:Will Oldham
“...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.” TryingTwoBalanceLoversDeedsScalesTreasureStolenWeighing Author:Gore Vidal
“Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.” HeartHardHard WorkBalanceGods WillPurityWeighing Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.” EndsRocksBalanceWeightMethodBalancedHogWeighingSymmetrical Author:Robert Burns
“Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.” FriendshipBalanceAdversityProsperityScalesBest FriendWeighingEconomic Prosperity Author:Plutarch
“On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.” BelieveI BelieveWealthBalanceArgumentAustraliaFundSovereignWeighing Author:Malcolm Turnbull