"Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance."

-- Joseph Addison

#Opposites Quotes #Balance Quotes #Weight Quotes

“I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.”
“Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.”
“My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.”
“Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House
“What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.”

Source : Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.34, Broadway Books
“There's no sex in Middle Earth.”
“As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.”

Source : "Mark Consuelos Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, How He Got Involved with the Show, Its Dark Subject Matter and Working on the Asylum Set". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.
“Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.”

Source : Sol Stern (2013). “A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred”, p.1938, Encounter Books

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