Quotes About Balance

There was still chicken on the bone but sometimes you just have to push the plate away.

Aronson was getting at the fine line between seeking the truth and seeking a verdict in your client's favor. They weren't always the same thing.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. When you look into the abyss the abyss looks into you. You know, all the clichés. They're clichés because they're true. You don't go into the darkness without it going into you and taking its piece.

Okay, Harry. We can work cases. But we bend the rules. We don't break them.

It seemed like the most important things in life were the easiest to break apart.

She was on a roll and everybody knew it. It was what cops and prosecutors called being in the tube. It was a surfing reference. It meant they had ridden the case into the water tunnel where everything was going smoothly and perfectly and was surrounding them in glorious balance.

She guessed that his joining the cold case squad had fully consumed him to the point where he hadn't had time to listen his music.

Maybe sometimes vengeance is just as good as justice," he said. "They're pretty much the same if you ask me.

She was pretty pissed off, in fact, that she was under arrest and not going to be able to get her next fix in jail." "You don't sound like you have a lot of sympathy." "I do to an extent. I've dealt with addicts all my life, including in my own family, and it's hard to balance sympathy for them with the damage they do to their families and others.

justice is incidental to law and order.

play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. When you look into the abyss the abyss looks into you. You know, all the clichés. They're clichés because they're true. You don't go into the darkness without it going into you and taking its piece.

Power is neither male or female.

Malcolm said, "You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.

Too much change is as destructive as too little. Only at the edge of chaos can complex systems flourish.

And I think the answer is that we are, in reality, terribly frail animals. And we don't like to be reminded of how frail we are—how delicate the balances are inside our own bodies, how short our stay on Earth, and how easily it is ended.

In evolutionary theory, this is called the Red Queen phenomenon," Malcolm said. "Because in Alice in Wonderland the Red Queen tells Alice she has to run as fast as she can just to stay where she is. That's the way evolutionary spirals seem. All the organisms are evolving at a furious pace just to stay in the same balance. To stay where they are.

And I think the answer is that we are, in reality, terribly frail animals. And we don't like to be reminded of how frail we are—how delicate the balances are inside our own bodies, how short our stay on Earth, and how easily it is ended. So

the natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution, the rampant industrialization, the loss of habitat-when animals were squeezed and cornered, they behave viciously, in a desperate effort to survive.

Human beings are so destructive,' Malcolm said. 'I sometimes think we're a kind of plague that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and let's evolution proceed to its next phase.

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.

Let's keep it in perspective,' Hammond said. 'You get the engineering correct and the animals will fall into place. After all, they're trainable.

This impulsive behavior: you realize it's a storm in the brain, neurons on the edge of chaos. Obsession is just a variety of addiction. But what scientist ever had self-control? They instruct them in school: it's bad form to be balanced.