Quotes About Balance

Cooper walked, slow and steady, four-four time in a world gone off measure.

As many times as Hell had been created, history stood as indisputable proof that the mass of humanity was good. People built more than they burned, created more than they destroyed, not by a little but by a massive surplus

I see the method in your madness, but there's too much madness in your method.

down too much beef jerky. What he'd really been

either. Maybe, like him, she was both a pro and a person, both a job and a life. Had it been a mistake not to include her? Until her, Cooper had never worked with anyone who could match him. And she would be a huge asset if he had to sneak into…

Ethan was partaking in that greatest of white-collar lies, "working from home," and not feeling at all bad about it. He

Good news, bad news.

But he was the one who'd called for compromise, and the nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached.

The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

Existence was a chain. Life at one end, vibrant and powerful; nothingness at the other.

He wasn't scared exactly, but he had that knife's edge thinness he used to get on the job, the sense that things could go either way.

A small minority of human beings now possesses a massive advantage. How can men and women on both sides of this divide live together, work together, form a single, more perfect union?

the nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached.

He wonders if a few moments of utter and total joy can be worth a lifetime of struggle. Maybe, he thinks. Maybe, if they're the right moments.

The ideal ratio, from the customer's point of view, is 5 to 1 or better. In other words, you should refer to the customer five times more than you refer to you and your company.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

No Sane man will dance.