Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death… — H. Robert Horvitz Copy Share Image
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest,… — Evangelista Torricelli Copy Share Image
I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction… — Amos Tversky Copy Share Image
The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Verily has man freewill to control his actions. That my Father-Mother has given to man as his inheritance. But the control of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education… — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts,… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial… — Scott Aaronson Copy Share Image
“Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind's ordered life hath… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
“Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'.… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
At 50, your life is in a state of perfect equilibrium: a balance of wisdom, maturity, and career financial achievement; all combined… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the… — Jon Elster Copy Share Image
But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
