I shook off the sweat and the sun. I understood that I had destroyed the balance of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach wh...ere I had been happy. Then I shot four more times at an inert body which the bullets penetrated without appearing so. And it was like four brief knocks that I struck on the door of misfortune.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Education must have two foundations--morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defence for self against the vices of others.... By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women have progressed far beyond the point of no return. They're in medical schools and law schools, and they're inching into the ...upper echelons of the corporate world. They've entered the political arena and are even beginning to make inroads into that ultimate male enclave, the U. S. Congress. They've had a taste of equality, even a taste of power. They've experienced the shift in the balance of power in a marriage that occurs when a wife is earning as much money as her husband. They've experienced the autonomy that comes from being in control of their own reproductive lives. They will almost certainly have to fight for these things again and again, losing ground, gaining ground, running in place. But they will never go back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit.... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more ca...ndor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to--no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspect...ive into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as sn...ow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... To say of one mask it is like, To say of another it is like,... To know that the balance does not quite rest, That the mask is strange, however like."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization... itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At last I feel the equal of my parents. Knowing you are going to have a child is like extending yourself in the world, setting up ...a tent and saying "Here I am, I am important." Now that I'm going to have a child it's like the balance is even. My hand is as rich as theirs, maybe for the first time. I am no longer just a child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »