Homeostatic Quotes

#1. [Plot is] the gradual perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium.

John Barth

#2. The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Plato

#3. That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom.

James C. Scott

#4. The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood pressure or the heart rate at normal levels and control many other functions.

Bernardo Houssay

#5. I said those final words against his lips and swallowed the rest as he kissed me. My mind went blissfully blank as his mouth moved with mine. No pain, no more fear. Just him. Just him and me and an open Countryside, heaven, and all the time in the world.

Sarah Fine

#6. Of course not," Colby replied. "What's mine is yours, and what's yours is, well . . . yours.

Jody Morse

#7. Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Dejan Stojanovic

#8. He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]
Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

Idries Shah

#9. In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

Glen Hansard

#10. I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

Tobias Lindholm

#11. Failure.
That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness ...

John Wyndham

#12. I like hanging out with people.

Isaiah Mustafa

#13. They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.

Kathryn Stockett

#14. Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.

Philip Jose Farmer

#15. Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

Paulo Coelho

#16. Both men felt uncomfortable. Each knew the other understood him. That kind of knowledge is agreeable for friends, and for enemies very disagreeable, especially when they can't either have it out or separate.

Ivan Turgenev

#17. Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles ... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.

Dana Brunetti

#18. By acting like a man in love, he became a man in love again.

Various