Quotes About Balance

the mystical Force, the energy field all Jedi drew upon for strength, could come in handy.

Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad…

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer

But, for the general award of love, The little sweet doth kill much bitterness;

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip. ? John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

Miss Trixie was never perfectly vertical; she and the floor always met at an angle of less than ninety degrees.

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

All crisis have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

he's imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales. He's forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded.

considered authority, the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction...

Complexity fully rendered would take too long and contain too much, thereby entangling judgment. Complexity as what you want or expect would only confirm what you think you know. You need something in between.

Like poles on tightropes, temperament makes the difference between slips and safe arrivals.

la simplicidad coexiste con la complejidad y puede guiarnos con éxito con ella.

If one is fed, housed, and healthy, then debts, pride, conscience, standards, dignity, and what you will, will have to be laughed off....

alinear aspiraciones y capacidades. Ambas

the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."21

Without ever having read Clausewitz—at least as far as we know—the president revived that strategist's great principle that war must be the instrument of politics, rather than the other way around.

what is the good of a nice house without a decent planet to put it on H.D.Thoreau

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time".

You can satisfy some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot satisfy all of the people all the time

In 1918 especially, this question of balance played a crucial role in the war between virus and immune system, and between life and death. The virus was often so efficient at invading the lungs that the immune system had to mount a massive response to it. What was killing young adults a few days after the first symptom was not the virus. The killer was the massive immune response itself.