logo

Quotes About Equilibrium

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.
~ Bhagavad Gita
I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications. I can write fantasy without thinking as much. I like to balance things out: a certain amount of fantasy and a certain amount of science fiction.
~ Roger Zelazny
Relationships are never fifty-fifty. Sometimes they are sixty-forty, sometimes eighty-twenty. You'll be the eighty sometimes, you'll be the twenty others. The key is to accept and be okay with that.
~ Harlan Coben
Myron shook his head. "Violence is always the answer for you, Win." Win frowned. "Stop sounding melodramatic. A man committed a vile act upon you. Squaring things would have helped put it behind you. It's not about vengeance. It's about equilibrium. It's about man's basic need to keep the scales balanced.
~ Harlan Coben
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
~ George Soros
Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.
~ Mary McCarthy
No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.
~ Francois Hollande
Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.
~ Olen Steinhauer, The Tourist
Life essentially seeks out balance.I have found that it is in the habit of trading one sorrow for one joy until one cancels out the other.
~ Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
~ Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
~ Sir Isaac Newton
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
~ Homer
II y a deux sortes de gens. Il y a ceux qui vivent, jouent et meurent. Et il y a ceux qui ne font jamais rien d'autre que se tenir en équilibre sur l'arête de la vie. Il y a les acteurs. Et il y a les funambules.
~ Maxence Fermine
Ir divu veidu cilv?ki. Ir tie, kas dz?vo, sp?l? un mirst. Un tie, kas nekad nedara neko citu, k? vien turas l?dzsvar? uz dz?ves smailes. Ir aktieri. Un ir virves dejot?ji.
~ Maxence Fermine
His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
We need to find a balance between solving problems and learning to live with unsolved problems.
~ Melody Beattie
Seek balance in your life. Learn when it's time to let go, and learn when it's time to act.
~ Melody Beattie
Today, I will strive for balance.
~ Melody Beattie
We must have a Believer. If we have a scientist, then we must have a Believer, in the interests of fairness and balance.
~ Ben Bova
The work of a financial analyst falls somewhere in the middle between that of a mathematician and of an orator.
~ Benjamin Graham
Many forces conspire to make for uniformity in modern communities—schools, newspapers, cinema, radio, drill, etc. Density of population has the same effect. The position of momentary equilibrium between the sentiment of independence and the love of power tends, therefore, under modern conditions, to shift further and further in the direction of power, thus facilitating the creation and success of totalitarian States.
~ Bertrand Russell
Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.
~ Jocko Willink
By nature, I am someone who hews to the middle. I need to hear all sides of a story. Unless I am engaged in a tough round of dominoes or Scrabble, I think of myself as unreasonably reasonable.
~ Gwen Ifill
As lovers, we poise together delicately on a tightrope. When the winds of doubt and fear begin blowing, if we panic and clutch at each other or abruptly turn away and head for cover, the rope sways more and more and our balance becomes even more precarious. To stay on the rope, we must shift with each other's moves, respond to each other's emotions. As we connect, we balance each other. We are in emotional equilibrium.
~ Sue Johnson