Remaining Balance

Famous quotes containing the words remaining and/or balance:

    “Because of the unusual remoteness of Russia, and because of nostalgia’s remaining throughout one’s life an insane companion, with whose heartrending oddities one is accustomed to put up in public, I feel no embarrassment in confessing to the sentimental stab of attachment to my first book.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “They relieve and recommend each other, and the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities. She punishes abstractionists, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)