Double Declining Balance

Famous quotes containing the words double, declining and/or balance:

    “Each in their double Eden closed
    They fail to see the gardener there
    Has planted Error....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers,
    Cleverly ringed, declining to clever pink,
    Beg glory from the willing keys. Old hungers
    Will break their coffins, rise to eat and thank.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Any balance we achieve between adult and parental identities, between children’s and our own needs, works only for a time—because, as one father says, “It’s a new ball game just about every week.” So we are always in the process of learning to be parents.”
    —Joan Sheingold Ditzion, Dennie, and Palmer Wolf. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)