Home / Topics / Balance Quotes

Balance Quotes

Browse 3864 quotes about Balance.

Balance Quotes

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.”

Humans Balance Upset Fragile Ancestor

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.”

Way War History Power Society Objects Balance Approach Direct Strategy Rounds Resistance Upset Defenders Indirect Compression Direct Approach

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.”

Humans White Race Existence Planets Balance Civilization Cancer Spread Ideology Upset Human History Ecological Autonomous White Race Existence Of Life Ecological Balance

Author:Susan Sontag

“If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre.”

“A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely.”

Strong Buddhism Balance Upset

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not seem to decay, at least, not to the point of disintegration and reintegration back into the soil, so the food chain, or the circle of life, seems to end or be short-circuited by their existence. Zombies fulfill the worst potentialities of humans to create a hellish kingdom on earth of endless, sterile repetition and boredom.”

Source: Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth

“The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.”

Perfect Achieve Balance Upset Aphorism

Author:Mason Cooley

“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.”

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.”

“Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.”

Soul Action Loss Arms Balance Reactions Upset Equilibrium Flailing

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“You have to have a balance, and I think that people get upset about Hip-Hop and say that it's dead because there is no balance. It's just all this simple-minded music, and it doesn't seem to be any content, and the dance club music outnumbers the little content there is.”

People Thinking Littles Seems Simple Balance Hip Hop Clubs Hips Upset Hops

Author:Chamillionaire

“God has decided the rules of life, whereby you don't trespass on anybody else's rights, and sin is something that upsets the balance of things. There are three types of sin: sin against yourself; sin against other people; and sin against God. People often sin against themselves and others and misbehave with God, too.”

People Sin Balance Upset Rules Of Life

Author:Cat Stevens

“If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feelings Film Strong Dangerous Balance Upset Contrast Sewing

Book:David Lynch: Interviews

Source: David Lynch: Interviews