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Quotes About Imbalance

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.
~ Margot Kidder
neurochemically, obsessive-compulsive disorder bears a conspicuous resemblance to falling in love. Scientists have scanned the brains of the pathologically obsessive and held them up next to brain scans of the love-struck, and the images turned colors in the same places. Doctors drew blood and found the same chemical imbalances—namely, a serotonin deficit.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I]t's impossible to overestimate the need to maintain a healthy peasant class, as the basis of the national community. Many of our present evils have their origin exclusively in the imbalance between urban and rural populations. A solid group of small- and mid-scale farmers has always been the best protection against social disease.
~ Adolf Hitler
The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.
~ Proverb
The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it.
~ Joss Whedon
Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.
~ Bob Uecker
Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it.
~ Joss Whedon
In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Gallagher hablaba muy deprisa. Todo aquello pasaba muy deprisa, desequilibrándolo. Y no había tomado nada más fuerte que cerveza en toda la noche. Lo único que le pasaba era que Hazel Jones se le había subido un poco a la cabeza.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Richard reflected that Dirk's was a face into which too much had already been put. What with that and the amount he talked, the traffic through his mouth was almost incessant. His ears, on the other hand, remained almost totally unused in normal conversation.
~ Douglas Adams
Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
~ Aeschylus
I am not against cricket, but it is dominating this country. All other games are finished, because the media shows cricket 24 hours a day, the papers are full of cricketers' photographs.
~ Milkha Singh
Stress imbalances microbiome, disrupts gut, promotes brain dysfunction Imbalanced microbiome disrupts gut, promotes brain dysfunction, induces exaggerated response to stress Dysfunctional gut imbalances microbiome, promotes brain dysfunction, induces exaggerated response to stress
~ Raphael Kellman
Insulin signals cells to absorb excess sugar, which solves the problem of too much sugar in the blood, but it creates a host of new problems. Now the body's cells have too much sugar. To correct this imbalance, cells turn the sugar into saturated fat.
~ Raymond Francis
HERE IS A GENERAL statement about Tibetan medicine: Human physiology is spoken of in terms of the three humours — wind, bile and phlegm. Where do disturbances originate? Wind, bile and phlegm imbalances occur respectively, from the 'three poisons', or primary mental afflictions, namely attachment, anger and ignorance.
~ Renuka Singh
Imbalanced systems,whether internal or external, will tend to polarize.
~ Richard C. Schwartz
La locura de mi alma no puede reclinarse, vive en lo inquieto, en lo desordenado, en el desequilibrio de las cosas dinámicas, en el silencio del libre pensador, que vive solo, en callado destierro. The madness of my soul cannot repose, it lives in the restlessness in the disorder in the imbalance of things dynamic, in the silence of the free thinker, who lives alone, in quiet exile. (From Mi Alma / My Soul)
~ Julia de Burgos
But that was the nature of relationships: there always seemed to be an imbalance of one sort of another. And it was fine to plan an emotional strategy, but another thing when the ground opened up in front of you, and your defending troops toppled into a ravine which hadn't been marked on the map until a few seconds previously.
~ Julian Barnes
But that was the nature of relationships: there always seemed to be an imbalance of one sort or another.
~ Julian Barnes
By using feminist arguments, for which most had little or no sympathy, as part of their propaganda, the colonialists tainted the cause of feminism in the Muslim world, and helped to distort the faith by introducing an imbalance that had not existed before.83 The
~ Karen Armstrong
The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
~ Janet Morris
1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.
~ Ron Perlman
Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.
~ Carl Shapiro
I've never quite understood why the knuckleheads of the planet so outnumber the rest of us.
~ Duane Hewitt