Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.
Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.
The wretched reflect either too much or too little.
It's very unbalanced actually, to be real. Everything's like deserted.
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.
When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.
If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced, balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress you must first go unbalanced. Just look at how you make progress walking
I like to speed teams up. I don't like them to get in their rhythm.
When things get better, there's a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others.
The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Unbalance so as to re-balance.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.
Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
To me, nature always appears more unbalanced than Gary Busey with a clogged Eustachian tube.
Hard times are with us; the country is distracted; very few things are marketable at a price above the cost of production; tens of thousands are out of employment; the jails, penitentiaries, workhouses and insane asylums are full; the gold reserve at Washington is sinking; the government is running at a loss with a deficit in every department; a huge debt hangs like an appalling cloud over the country; taxes have assumed the importance of a mortgage, and 50 per cent of the public revenues are likely to go delinquent; hungered and half-starved men are banding into armies marching toward Washington; the cry of distress is heard on every hand; business is paralyzed; commerce is at a standstill; riots and strikes prevail throughout the land;
I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
We had all kinds of egomaniacs and crazies
as agents in the OSS Office of Strategic Services—forerunner to the CIA