Quotes About Balance

We are a generous people but we must also be just. —I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

itd be much better for the world to be governed by the women in it you wouldnt see women going and [728] killing one another and slaughtering when do you ever see women rolling around drunk like they do or gambling every penny they have and losing it on horses yes because a woman whatever she does she knows where to stop

Perhaps indeed the weights on the scale get balanced and in the fifth act a semblance of catharsis and order is imposed upon the players and we continue our lives and do our best until the day comes when we have to go either gentle or raging into that good night. I suspect the real issue is how we conduct ourselves when the ironies of fate seem more than the soul can bear.

I love the early hours of the day. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

TWO THERE SHOULD BE; NO MORE NO LESS. One to embody power, The other to crave it. - Darth Bane

Qui-Gon believes that the boy—Anakin is his name—stands at the center of a vergence in the Force, and believes further that his finding him was the will of the Force.

Drall's lighter gravity is going to Jacen's head. He's convinced that our coming here is going to upset the balance of the Force or something." -Anakin Solo

Qui-Gon was the key to everything.

Science doesn't take sides, does it?

What the ancients called Bogan, as separate from Ashla.

They await the coming of a prophesized redeemer who will bring balance to the Force and restore order.

There's an African proverb that advises, "Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

But while she weebled and wobbled and leaned, she did not fall. She responded with speed and motion (163).

The quality of a good life depends in large measure on how a man reacts to his natural environment, and we cannot destroy one without diminishing the other.

What we require is a balance between protest and stability. This is never easy to obtain but is worth attempting, because we know that if through indifference we lose our liberties we shall not regain them in this century.

The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.

Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long. -Nudge

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.