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  • I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those. -- Ryan Reynolds
  • You can't become a dictator through checks and balances. -- Tommy Chong
  • The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out. -- Ray Romano
  • This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. -- Gracie Allen
  • The universe, it balances. It makes sure you don't get a head that's too big. I love it. -- Sandra Bullock
  • But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. -- Sylvia Plath
  • I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body. -- Rihanna
  • It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. -- Beau Willimon
  • Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends. -- A. S. Byatt
  • As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires. -- Charles B. Rangel
  • Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. -- Steve Allen
  • Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. -- Barbara Tuchman
  • I feel like it does get busier professionally, but personally, I think I choose how I spend my time more carefully, so it balances it out in that sense. -- Danielle Panabaker
  • Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings. -- Jon Stewart
  • I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers. -- Todd Tiahrt
  • The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power. -- Roy Moore
  • The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, 'Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good.' Hopefully it balances out. -- Demetri Martin
  • Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. -- Jonah Goldberg
  • I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. -- James Cameron
  • I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market. -- James Chanos
  • We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
  • We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum. -- Chuck Schumer
  • A warrior balances solitude and dependence. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Karma is real, it balances the universe. -- Ronnie Radke
  • Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget. -- Mitt Romney
  • I love a story that balances pace with detail. -- Michael Boatman
  • Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books. -- Alison Lurie
  • Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances. -- Mason Cooley
  • April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances -- Matsuo Basho
  • We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy. -- Lisa Ling
  • Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. -- Frank Herbert
  • Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below. -- Homer
  • A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. -- Frank Herbert
  • My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me. -- Monica Bellucci
  • On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament. -- Sushil Koirala
  • Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge. -- Tarryn Fisher
  • It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking. -- Simon Cowell
  • The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being. -- Peace Pilgrim
  • The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances -- Harry Reid
  • Well, let's be clear I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances. -- Rand Paul
  • The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people's lives, not just their own bank balances. -- Richard Branson
  • ... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account. -- Ameen Rihani
  • I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work. -- Arnon Goldfinger
  • I love masculine cuts with suits and chunky jewellery. My hair is so glam, it balances it out, and it's comfy! -- Rita Ora
  • Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? -- Robin Hobb
  • If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma. -- Dane Cook
  • My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget. -- Rand Paul
  • I need a dose of the natural environment on a regular basis. It balances the bitumen and high rises of Collins Street. -- Simon McKeon
  • As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out. -- Lou Gramm
  • I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well. -- Jimmy Bennett
  • ... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice. -- John Ruskin
  • We're for the balanced budget amendment and yet the budget we're going to introduce, that we're going to repeal Obamacare with never balances. -- Rand Paul
  • Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. -- Anais Nin
  • It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion. -- Sylvia Boorstein
  • The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • The world of nature, at once a vision of exquisite beauty and an arena of brutal savagery, is a dynamic system of delicate balances. -- S. Bradley Stoner
  • Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too. -- Lyndsy Fonseca
  • We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability. -- Hillary Clinton
  • What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two. -- Robert Kazinsky
  • There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out. -- Ashton Kutcher
  • However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last. -- Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
  • Why are we doing all these handstands, backbends and arm balances? I don't know why we're doing them unless our lives are shaped and changed. -- Judith Hanson Lasater
  • Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart. -- B. W. Powe
  • What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two. -- Robert Kazinsky
  • Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity. -- Robert Fulghum
  • I have always advocated doing everything possible to pay off credit card balances; it's good financial management and the ticket to a strong FICO credit score. -- Suze Orman
  • Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to. -- Jeremy Grantham
  • If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
  • No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death. -- Dave Eggers
  • The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances. -- William Osler
  • Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values. -- William J. Clinton
  • In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned. -- Beryl Markham
  • Who values the past lives sentimentally.Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity.Who balances time creates harmony. Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.Who solves complexity opens continuity." -- Angelica Hopes
  • Who values the past lives sentimentally.Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity.Who balances time creates harmony. Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.Who solves complexity opens continuity. -- Angelica Hopes
  • You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good -- Jackie Ballard
  • [Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool. -- Winston Churchill
  • The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies. -- Bryant McGill
  • The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth. -- Nathan Myhrvold
  • I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington. -- Dave Brat
  • Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career. -- Neil Armstrong
  • When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.' -- Chellie Pingree
  • There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers. -- Michael Shermer
  • Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks. -- Marvin Minsky
  • The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture. -- Winifred Holtby
  • In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
  • An adamant silence overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of an indefinable unknown, unconsciously desired. -- Carl Henegan
  • I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years -- Gwen Ifill
  • Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time. -- May Sarton
  • Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power. -- Paul MacCready
  • There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises. -- Jonathan Shapiro
  • There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion. -- Don DeLillo
  • Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds. -- Rachel
  • The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened. -- Christian de Duve
  • There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired. -- Carl Henegan
  • Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in terms of wholes, of communities, of interrelationships, and of balances. -- Roderick Nash
  • Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency. -- Jonathan Turley
  • We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy. -- Ian Axel
  • For some sport is a hobby but for me it is a way to survive. It makes me calm, balanced and well-rested. Not tired but vice versa. I think sport balances off my work load. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
  • But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill.... -- Ian Mcewan
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