Law Of Equivalent Exchange Quotes

#1. Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.

Hiromu Arakawa

#2. For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means ... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

Evelyn Waugh

#4. My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'

KaDee Strickland

#5. When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

Dean Rusk

#6. New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

Takashi Murakami