An opposition does more than oppose. It protects.
The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
Heavy is the root of light.
It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.
"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.
For every security measure, there is a counter measure that breeds further insecurity. The acquisition by Pakistan or Iran of a nuclear capability neutralizes the security achieved by Israel’s own nuclear capability. Non-governmental terrorism neutralizes governmental military superiority. Chemical weapons neutralize the security of cement walls.
I make the necessary "corrections" if I find myself leaning too far in one direction.
The moment you introduce the element of IT, which is an interdimensional evil entity, the presence of the turtle comes with it, as a counterbalance.
Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.
I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.
Unbalance so as to re-balance.
A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.
Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.
It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.
The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
Everything in life... has to have balance.
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
