Delicate Balance Quotes

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Like chaos in a glass cage.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

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.

I am confident that Jeff Sessions will do his part to restore the delicate balance between the states and the federal government that the Founders envisioned.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.