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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. — Arthur Balfour

His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. — Arthur Balfour

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life. — Arthur Balfour

Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. — Clara Lucas Balfour

In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be. — Arthur Balfour

Each item of business was described in the expansive, flourishing script that Balfour associated in his mind, with a man who could afford to waste his ink on curlicues. — Eleanor Catton

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick. — Arthur Balfour

Love is a word we use for the desire to fornicate so that we seem more refined than farm animals." ~Lucian Balfour — Suzanne Enoch

The embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with many of the sheets lost, others displaced, and with spurious passages interpolated by a later hand ... Like the scholar with his manuscript, the embryologist has by a process of careful and critical examination to determine where the gaps are present, to detect the later insertions, and to place in order what has been misplaced. — Francis Maitland Balfour

Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong. — Arthur James Balfour

As guardians of a continuity of religious and racial tradition" the Zionists were, Balfour decided, "a great conservative force in world politics." Immediately — Barbara W. Tuchman

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country. — Arthur Balfour

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged. — Arthur Balfour

The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have. — Eric Balfour

As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special. — Eric Balfour

This Mr Thomson seems a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. It would please me none the worse, if (with all his merits) he were soused in the North Sea; for the man, Mr Balfour, is a sore embarrassment. — Robert Louis Stevenson

From the Diary of the Duchess of Roxburghe
I vow, I cannot seem to walk past a window without seeing my great-nephew carrying Miss Balfour somewhere. All great romantic poems have such scenes where the hero, in a fit of passion, sweeps the heroine off her feet. Sadly, it appears that Sin's technique is questionable.
I'm surprised that, with all of his supposed experience with the gentler sex, he doesn't realize that women do not like to be carried in a way that musses their hair and leaves them with unattractively red faces.
Sadly, yet another conversation I shall have to have with that boy. — Karen Hawkins

I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television. — Eric Balfour

A little more than he bargained for, perhaps," said Dick Mannering. "It's always that - when it's the truth," replied Balfour. — Eleanor Catton

I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career. — Eric Balfour

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it. — Eric Balfour

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do. — Eric Balfour

Brandeis thought that the British should allow more Jews into Palestine. It was not only their obligation under the Balfour Declaration; it was the only way Jews could be saved from Hitler. When — Lewis J. Paper

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. — Arthur Balfour

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters. — Eric Balfour

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week. — Bertrand Russell

By what I have read in books, I think few that have held a pen were ever really wearied, or they would write of it more strongly. I had no care of my life, neither past nor future, and I scarce remembered there was such a lad as David Balfour. I did not think of myself, but just of each fresh step which I was sure would be my last, with despair - and of Alan, who was the cause of it, with hatred. Alan was in the right trade as a soldier; this is the officer's part to make men continue to do things, they know not wherefore, and when, if the choice was offered, they would lie down where they were and be killed. And I dare say I would have made a good enough private; for in these last hours it never occurred to me that I had any choice but just to obey as long as I was able, and die obeying. — Robert Louis Stevenson

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use. — Eric Balfour

I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now. — Arthur Balfour

Own reputation, by associating himself with a story of cuckoldry, blackmail, murder, and revenge, and nor did he spare a thought for how Balfour might be recompensed. He felt only relief. An invisible order had been restored: the same kind of order that ensured his boiled egg was ready every morning, and the dishes cleared away. He plumped the knot of his necktie with his fingers, and rose from the table as a man refreshed. — Eleanor Catton

Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say. — Arthur Balfour

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. — Arthur Balfour

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. — Arthur Balfour

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. — Arthur Balfour

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors. — Eric Balfour

Enthusiasm moves the world. — Arthur Balfour

I actually like acting in things that I'm directing because I'm able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint. — Eric Balfour

Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed and the earth tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for the moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. — Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. — Arthur Balfour

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries. — Eric Balfour

As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards. — Eric Balfour

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. — Arthur Balfour

Keep moving forward! — Kenneth Balfour

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it. — Arthur Balfour

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. — Eric Balfour

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others. — Arthur Balfour

I never forgive, but I always forget. — Arthur Balfour

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress. — Arthur Balfour

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'. — Arthur Balfour

I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill. — Eric Balfour

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference — Arthur Balfour

I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Second World War. This Jewish/non-Jewish Elite used the First World War to secure the Balfour Declaration and the principle of the Jewish State of Israel. — David Icke

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared. — Arthur Balfour

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious. — Arthur Balfour

I've had the experience of seeing what makes life easier for an actor and for the crew, and what makes it feel bogged down and challenging. We're all really fortunate that we get to make our living as artists. — Eric Balfour

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained. — Arthur Balfour

Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing than anything, but I was on a high from being a director and enjoying that process so much that going back to being an actor was almost secondary because I really was loving directing. — Eric Balfour

Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all. — Arthur Balfour

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation. — Arthur Balfour

I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the job of an actor is to invite scrutiny, but with that, the people around them have to nurture that and put them in an environment where they feel safe and they feel like they can risk something. — Eric Balfour

Round here, everybody's always talking about home,' said Balfour. 'Can't help but think that the pleasure's in the missing. — Eleanor Catton

The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you'll learn something from it. — Eric Balfour

Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director. — Eric Balfour

'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth. — Eric Balfour

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary. — Arthur Balfour

At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves. — Eric Balfour

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me. — Eric Balfour

Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you're going to move to there and then do the scene." That doesn't help actors. — Eric Balfour

Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor. — Arthur Balfour

A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we've lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives. — Eric Balfour

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means. — Francis Maitland Balfour

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. — Arthur Balfour

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not. — Arthur Balfour

Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like to be too rigid in how I plan my shots. It's different if you have weeks to rehearse and you can rehearse on your sets or in your locations and you can plan that out with your actors, but in modern independent filmmaking, you don't really have that time. You have to have a certain level of improvisation. — Eric Balfour

His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews. — Arthur Balfour

People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realize. You see someone in school everyday, or at work, in the canteen, and you share a cigarette of a coffee with them, and you talk about the weather or last night's air raid. But you don't talk so much about what was the nastiest thing you ever said to your mother, or how you pretended to be David Balfour, the hero of Kidnapped, for the whole of the year when you were 13, or what you imagine yourself doing with the pilot who looks like Leslie Howard if you were alone in his bunk after a dance. — Elizabeth Wein

Whether through the Balfour — Alan Hart

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader. — Eric Balfour

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians? — Arthur Balfour

I'd love to say that every move I make is completely calculated and I'm sitting on a pile of scripts, sifting through them for the perfect role, but the fact is that there are a lot of talented people out there and there's a lot of competition in our business. — Eric Balfour

Directing is something that I'd been wanting and hoping to do, as I've grown into myself. — Eric Balfour

It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act ... — Balfour Stewart

I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics. — Balfour Stewart

This isn't a duality. I'm not one of the Balfour Academy soldiers, drinking a potion to become virile, ugly, and monstrously strong. There isn't a lever inside me that determines which of me you're talking to at once. A knife can cut or stab. The label doesn't change. It's still a knife. — Wildbow

As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out. — Eric Balfour

I think 'Game Of Thrones' has been genius, and I really don't want it to end. Every episode is huge. It's totally immense, and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn me in. — Eric Balfour

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans. — Arthur Balfour

Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England! — John Hay Beith

Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish. — Francis Maitland Balfour

Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me. — Eric Balfour

Ask with urgency and passion. — Arthur Balfour

I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department. — Harry S. Truman

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries. — Arthur Balfour

The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel. — Robert Fisk

By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them. — Eric Balfour

The minute you try to do something that is not true to you, is not something that you really know about, and is not a lifestyle or world that you live in or can relate to, it's going to come off as false. — Eric Balfour