Top 70 Balances Quotes

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.

The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.

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.

You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use it to manipulate them in any way that you choose. And you can roll out an algorithm that genuinely makes massive differences to people’s lives, both good and bad, without any checks and balances.

As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.

Processes break in two ways. They break because they don’t have the right checks and balances and because they don’t have the right execution.

Spooning a seasonal fruit relish onto a plate of grilled king salmon is very much my style – flavorful, straightforward, and unfussy. I also like the way fresh, ripe fruit balances the richness of the salmon.

It’s true that robust governance structures, checks and balances, transparency of markets, directionally leads to… less vulnerability to corruption.

The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That’s why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator’s whim.

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some people think wind is the way to go. And there’s always balances on that.

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.

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.

I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances.

Truth matters. Checks and balances matter.

I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed.

I don’t sign every check anymore, but I have my checks, my balances. I like the people I work with very much, but I check on them.

I feel that exercise really balances me. Then I layer on the other obligations that I have.

Paying interest on reserve balances enables the Fed to break the strong link between the quantity of reserves and the level of the federal funds rate and, in turn, allows the Federal Reserve to control short-term interest rates when reserves are plentiful.

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.

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.

In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.

Trade balances are determined by national savings propensities, not exchange rates.

Salt’s relationship to flavor is multidimensional: It has its own particular taste, and it both balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients.

The Knesset has balances that will not allow it to pass legislation that would destroy democracy from within.

One thing we know about government after the New Deal is that checks and balances through whistle-blowing is terrible policy.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it’s all checks and no balances.

In 2006, the Congress had approved plans to allow the Fed, beginning in 2011, to pay interest on banks’ reserve balances. In the fall of 2008, the Congress moved up the effective date of this authority to October 2008.

I think what balances me out more than anything is long walks and eating well.

Whenever you go on TV, there are so many checks and balances; it’s a big business with a lot of rules. Stand-up is intimate and the freest, most lawless place I’ve ever been able to go.

Todd Solondz is a film maker I’ve always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there’s no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That’s true of union bosses – and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

You need basically some accountability rules, which means democratic checks and balances at the euro zone level, and definitely, you have to increase convergence in terms of taxes, in terms of social affairs and so on.

We need to be able to turn to our immediate circle to ascertain whether our internal checks and balances are functional and to be able to rely on them to point out gross errors.

A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.

We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator. And in the end, you hope it’s a benevolent one. But then you could get things done. There’s no lurching; there’s no bumps. That’s the cornerstone of checks and balances.

I love the Manuka Doctor ApiRefine CC Cream in SPF 20. it balances out the skin and creates a great base for foundation.

Our system of checks and balances requires policymakers to have accurate information about government actions.

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.

Being able to go home to my kid is such a relief because he’s such a happy kid. He balances my life out in such a good way.

Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too.

Everyone is using the same programs, everyone is looking at the same opening ideas. I wouldn’t say everyone is necessarily the same in terms of talent or ability, but when you’re able to prepare games that go so deep that you don’t have to think, really, it balances out the field.

Independence sounds good in theory, but in practice, it is mutually exclusive with accountability. The more independence you give a prosecutor, the less you make that prosecutor accountable to the public and regular checks and balances.

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.

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

In Shakespeare, the moral balances are very fine.

Tea Party attendees and health care town-hall protesters share the common belief that the extravagant spending of President Obama and the Democratic Party – absent any checks and balances – will eventually lead more people into government dependency, higher taxes, and, perhaps, our country’s financial ruin.

I think most of us in America want our security. There’re so many people out there that are fearful and now with this realization of immigration, with the terrorists, we need to have better checks and balances in regards to who’s emigrating into our country.

Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget.

Our founders recognized that ‘men were not angels’ and that checks and balances in government were critical to avoid threats to the rule of law.

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.’

What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to life those boundaries in our constitutional system that were supposed to be the critical checks in the checks and balances system. Without them, we lose – gradually, we lose our liberty.