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Equilibrium Quotes

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Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.
Archimedes

Authors on Equilibrium Quotes: Richard Roeper Kenneth E. Boulding May Sarton Tom Stoppard Marjane Satrapi Archimedes Immanuel Wallerstein Pearl S. Buck Megan McCafferty Wynton Marsalis Francois Hollande Pierre Reverdy Megan McArdle Steve Vai Friedrich August von Hayek Victor Hugo Nikka Graff Lanzarone Priscilla Shirer Rudolf Arnheim Jose Marti Scott Aaronson George Santayana Dmitri Mendeleev Rudolf Clausius Julien Green Thomas Huxley Georges Bataille Charles Fort Nathalie Sarraute
2.
Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.
Priscilla Shirer

3.
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
George Santayana

4.
There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.
Dmitri Mendeleev

5.
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
Georges Bataille

6.
Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.
Kenneth E. Boulding

7.
When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.
Immanuel Wallerstein

8.
Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.
Rudolf Arnheim

9.
We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.
Friedrich August von Hayek

10.
All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.
Charles Fort

11.
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
Tom Stoppard

12.
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
Jose Marti

13.
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
Nathalie Sarraute

14.
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
Julien Green

15.
Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash equilibrium.
Scott Aaronson

16.
The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.
Rudolf Clausius

17.
The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.
Pierre Reverdy

18.
Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.
Megan McArdle

19.
I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.
Steve Vai

20.
...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.
Megan McCafferty

21.
I'd say that I'm also recommending [Equilibrium] for the cool gun battles.
Richard Roeper

22.
Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.
May Sarton

23.
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
Victor Hugo

24.
[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.
Kenneth E. Boulding

25.
No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.
Francois Hollande

26.
We're just trying to restore equilibrium to the Universe, that's all.
Nikka Graff Lanzarone

27.
Living things have no inertia,
and tend to no equilibrium.
Thomas Huxley

28.
To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
Pearl S. Buck

29.
Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.
Richard Roeper

30.
The blues is always there. It's going to be hard out here, but it's all right. It's all right, and that's what the blues teaches you. You got to roll with the punches and find your equilibrium.
Wynton Marsalis

31.
I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.
Marjane Satrapi