Quotes About Equilibrium

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

Only upon death does an organism reach equilibrium with its inanimate environment.

Balance is a myth

The need for perfection and the desire for inner tranquility conflict with each other.

Fortunately, there is an inviolable law in our emotional environment that goes something like this: Our current level of stress will be exactly that of our tolerance to stress.

Our bodies, for instance, are usually hotter than our surroundings, and in cold climates they have to work hard to maintain the differential. When we die the work stops, the temperature differential starts to disappear, and we end up the same temperature as our surroundings. Not all animals work so hard to avoid coming into equilibrium with their surrounding temperature, but all animals do some comparable work.

interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. "How like art

All my life I have struggled with making decisions—which I blame on being a true Libra—

He just hadn't expected to have his equilibrium roughly jostled by a pair of blue eyes this evening. He couldn't remember ever seeing eyes quite that color before. So achingly lovely they made him restless. He felt oddly as though he needed to do something about them.

It all seemed grossly unfair. He wanted nothing at all to change

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

Tam, kde není rozdíl? a protiklad?, nastane pohyb zpÄ›t.

They were such an odd pairing on the face of it: Obi-Wan so self-contained, Anakin so reckless. But they'd found their balance, and now they were two halves of a whole.

The triple point of water was indisputably the basis of the definition for the kelvin.

There are good days and bad days, and as long as there aren't too many of either, you get along with your life fine.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

A man must take the fat with the lean.

The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.