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| | Theodor Adorno |  | Taste is the ability to keep in balance the contradiction in art between the made and the apparent not-having-become; true works of art, however, never at one with taste, are those which push this contradiction to the extreme, and realize themselves in their resultant downfall. |
| | John B. Anderson | | How do you balance the budget, cut taxes and increase defense spending at the same time? It's very simple. You do it with mirrors. |
| | Barbara de Angelis | | Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. |
| | Matthew Arnold | | Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. |
| | Khandi Alexander | | This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance. |
| | Irving Babbitt | | The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. |
| | Irving Babbitt | | The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. |
| | Howard Baker | | Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care. |
| | James A. Baldwin | | When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. |
| | Max Beerbohm | | The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. |
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