Equilibrated System Quotes & Sayings

All of those stories are just tales told by people who lived lives before ours. What they say about humankind is true. — Brandon Sanderson

So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you. — Helen Steiner Rice

I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations. — Beyonce Knowles

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. — David Amram

Intention of seeking attention is an addiction. A vicious cycle which damages your health, finances and relationships. It will NOT improve your self-image, increase your self-worth or fulfill the need of genuine praise. — Maddy Malhotra

I think we are in this era right now where every element in a webpage is rendered to within an inch of its life. I think if it's a button, it looks like a physical button, you know, if it's a mailbox that's meant to signal a messaging functionality then the whole mailbox right down to the rivets on the hypothetical metallic housing is rendered. — Khoi Vinh

Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times! — Melissa De La Cruz

Legends like Jim Murray at the 'Los Angeles Times' and Shirley Povich at the 'Washington Post' were the most beloved guys at their papers. They'd write a cherished column for 30 years, and that was it. There was nothing else to do, no higher job to attain. — Stephen Rodrick

I didn't want to write this
even to think of you
afraid the thought would curl
would tangle & make you
common & factual as light. — Jake Adam York

If the referee happens to be in the way you just yell, 'move or I'll break your ankles!' which I used to do with referees. Some refs will stop and watch the fight it drives you crazy. — Harold Lederman

I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion. — Vinoba Bhave

That's why I go to the gym. I want to look like Tag, he — Amy Harmon

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do. — Pat Metheny

Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained longer. It'll be a life where there's more time for leisure - for enriching each other's lives rather than just running to stand still. In other words, more holiday time! So a holiday is absolutely the appropriate way to help us focus on it and make it a reality soon. — Aubrey De Grey

There can be no human society without conflict: such a society would be a society not of friends but of ants. Even if it were attainable, there are human values of the greatest importance which would be destroyed by its attainment, and which therefore should prevent us from attempting to bring it about. On the other hand, we certainly ought to bring about a reduction of conflict. So already we have here an example of a clash of values and principles. This example also shows that clashes of values and principles may be valuable, and indeed essential for an open society. — Karl Popper