Equilibrium Quotes · Page 3

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

— Aaron Hill

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

— Rudolf Clausius

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

— Megan McArdle

“That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.”

— Dean Koontz

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

— Amit Kalantri

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

— May Sarton

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

— Charles Alexander Eastman

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

— Henry Adams

Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one…

— Robert Aumann

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the…

— Albert Camus

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the…

— Jon Elster

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and…

— Rodney Atkins

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all…

— Confucius

“A market exchange has an equilibrium or stasis: you pay to balance the scale. But when you give a gift there is…

— Lewis Hyde

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years…

— E. O. Wilson

Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium…

— Anonymous

“[A]s you will come to see, everything in life comes at a price. Nothing is free, not a single thing, tangible or…

— Richard Harris

The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her…

— Hans Arp

Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded.…

— Pope Francis

The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium…

— Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

— David Rockwell

Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

— Camille Paglia

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity...

— Victor Hugo

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

— Jose Marti

Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.

— S. S. Van Dine

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

— Nathalie Sarraute

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

— Dalai Lama

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

— David Harvey

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

— George Santayana

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

— Edith Hamilton

“Universal law of equilibrium. Escape one horror, get hit by another.”

— Gayle Forman

I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.

— Steve Vai

Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world.

— Youngme Moon