Quotes About Balance

He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts, said Brutha. That way, everyone's happy.

Usually he didn't bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn't bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.

The mountains of madness have many little plateaux of sanity.

The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.

I let you sleep, Sam, said Lady Sybil. You didn't get in this morning until after three. Everyone's double-shifting, dear, said Sam, daring Carrot and Sally to even think about telling anyone they'd seen the boss wearing a blue shawl covered in ducks. I've got to set a good example. I'm sure you intend to, Sam, but you look like a horrible warning, said Sybil.

Between every rational moment were a billion irrational ones.

or there will be a reckoning!

The year is round! The wheel of the world must spin! That is why up here they dance the Dark Morris, to balance it. They welcome the winter because of the new summer deep inside it!

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way, Drumknott. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

Humans take. They plough with iron. They ravage the land.' 'Some do, I'll grant you that. Others put back more'n they take. They put back love. They've got soil in their bones.

To be a leader you have to learn to shout! But after you've learned to shout, you have to learn not to!

never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off

We look to… the edges,' said Mistress Weatherwax. 'There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong… an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.

Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation.

as well balanced as an upturned pyramid.

His job was to make sense of the world and there were times that he wished the world would meet him halfway.

The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death, making choices, making decisions so that others may pretend no decisions have even been needed.

You must make a place for fear, fear under control. We think that the head is important, that the brain sits like a monarch on the throne of the body. But the body is powerful too, and the brain cannot survive without it.

And he goes around killing people?" said Mort. He shook his head. "There's no justice." Death sighed. No, he said... there's just me.

you cannot apply brakes to a volcano. Sometimes it is best to let these things run their course. They generally die down again after a while.

What we're going to do is keep the peace. That's our job. We're not going to be heroes, we're just going to be ... normal.