Quotes About Balance

Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it's useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.

Privacy is as necessary as company; you can drive a man crazy by depriving him of either.

Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal—else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.

Her calculations were sometimes a little fuzzy, for the same reason that her checkbook sometimes did not balance; Becky Vesey (as she had been known as a child) had never really mastered the multiplication tables and she was inclined to confuse sevens with nines.

Spaceships are for acrobats who are also mathematicians.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.

You know the classification of cultures into 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian.

I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do . . . and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!" "Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow. Which is right now.

But that would have left no choice. This was contradiction; at cusp, choice is. By choice, spirit grows.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep.

every choice must be paid for.

Buras? da tüm iyi ailelerde olduÄŸu gibi anarÅŸi ve tiranl???n bir kar???m?d?r, demokrasiye yer yoktur.

The first principle in riding a tiger is to hang on tight to its ears.

like fire and fusion, government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.

Don't be in such a rush. It just slows you down.

V armádÄ› jsou jen dvÄ› velikosti - moc velká a moc malá.

Hice un descubrimiento muy importante en el campamento Currie: la felicidad consiste en dormir suficiente.

I am not indifferent to male beauty, but my sensuality is not perfectly balanced; in the presence of a homely female and a beautiful male, I tend to look at the female. So I'll never be an esthete; I lack judgment in matters of beauty. I apologize in advance to any female who finds my primitive attitude offensive.

If God displaces the Devil, he must assume the Devil's attributes.

Everybody is Equal and Everybody has a vote. But you have to draw the line somewhere.

Very few women understand how great is the hunger in a man to be near femininity...(b)ut if a woman wishes to give a most precious gift to a man, if she would truly feed this masculine hunger (a hunger that he will seldom show but that is always there), she will be very, very feminine when her man is in a mood, so he can get his bearings and be a man again.

While contradiction is static and unproductive, paradox makes room for grace and mystery.

The quickest way I know to break a person is to give him or her two sets of contradicting values—which is exactly what we do, in modern culture, with our Sunday and Monday moralities. We are taught by Christianity to follow a set of values that are almost entirely disregarded in everyday business life. How is a person to cope?

Özverinin kanunu ÅŸudur: EÄŸer bir erkek yanl?? düzeyde sahip olduÄŸu ÅŸeyden vazgeçerse, bu ona doÄŸru düzeyde iade edilir.