I’m pretty much a straight guy on ‘The Office.’ We can’t all be crazies. You need some balance. – Oscar Nunez
Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that. – Raymond E. Feist
If you’re writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you’re writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it’s towards another point. I won’t make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece. – Peter Maxwell Davies
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don’t have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play. – Sam Shepard
I think ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ can stand proudly in the pantheon of the great Disney animated films. It’s a fairy tale disguised as something more contemporary. With its balance of heart and comedy, it is still very much rooted in the Disney legacy. – Rich Moore
If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress. – Patty Murray
It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them. – Patricia Richardson
There are nine million servers sold annually. Of those, just one million are sourced by the big guys. What we’re trying to predict is: in the future, is that all going into the one million category? Or will there be some balance? – Satya Nadella
There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven’t come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis. – Peer Steinbruck
As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it’s a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself. – Rachel True
Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner… We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman’s balance was. – Patricia McBride
It’s almost negligible sleep and insane amounts of plane rides, but I’m doing it. Your body is screaming out to you to not abuse it so much, but I love what I do in my Hindi films as well as with ‘Quantico,’ and I want to be able to balance both. – Priyanka Chopra
Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets. – Rick Scott
Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, ‘The Tempest’ loses much of its resonance. – Robert Gottlieb
If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don’t it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us? – Robert Green Ingersoll
The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, ‘You know what? Here we go, this person just died, end of book.’ And with the end of the series, you’re very conscious of all the plotlines that were left hanging. There’s a balance there to wrap those up but still leave it exciting. – Richelle Mead
Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance. – Ruud van Nistelrooy
It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. – Robert Dold
A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like ‘crime’ and ‘security’ that are currently unregulated at the global level due to lack of international consensus over what those terms actually mean or over how to balance enforcement with the protection of citizens’ rights. – Rebecca MacKinnon
I would love for a regular student to have a student-athlete’s schedule during the season for just one quarter or one semester and show me how you balance that. Show me how you would schedule your classes when you can’t schedule classes from 2-to-6 o’clock on any given day. – Richard Sherman
The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. – Robert C. Solomon
John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer. – Robert Dallek
My grandmother’s first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with. – Pat Barker
If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically. – Rolf-Dieter Heuer
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance. – Prince Charles
There’s a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it’s much more developed than in others. It’s a different balance which makes us all different. – Paula Fox