Counterpoise Quotes

#1. Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

Evelyn Waugh

#2. Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Blaise Pascal

#3. Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.

Charles Dickens

#4. Order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

Henry Kissinger

#5. An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

Edward Everett Hale

#6. It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return ...

Carl Jung

#7. There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.

Margaret George

#8. Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drank the milk of Paradise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#9. Costumes are so much better than clothes. They're like drugs, they change your personality.

Mary Woronov

#10. America is the one rich country with the biggest slums, the least democratic and least developed health system, and the most niggardly attitude against its old people.

Gunnar Myrdal

#11. Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.

A.A. Milne

#12. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

Frank Watson Dyson