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Don't confuse symmetry with balance. — Tom Robbins

He relented to the kiss and gave of himself what she required, his lips parting in symmetry with hers until the moment of realization collapsed. — Thomm Quackenbush

Excessive symmetry is either unnatural and conceals some human thought behind it, or else supernatural and conceals some mystery. — Luis Fernando Verissimo

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms — Jorge Luis Borges

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. — George Bernard Shaw

Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand. — Daphne Du Maurier

Her taste for symmetry and structure, it helped her thoughts drift. Symmetry did not chain her, it set her free. (p. 85) — Deborah Levy

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. — Louis O. Kelso

In 1956 two American physicists, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, suggested that the weak force does not in fact obey the symmetry P. — Stephen Hawking

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about. — Amy Poehler

I will never forget the asymmetry of your eyes. it is transformative symmetry. it is the best symmetry. It is the symmetry that is beauty. — Lydia Netzer

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. — Charles Lamb

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry. — Larry Wall

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind — Dean Cavanagh

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. — Edouard Manet

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's. — Kevin McCloud

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry. — Rick Perlstein

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. — Paul Valery

She was tried for trying to take her own life," Gascoigne said. "There's a symmetry in that, do you not think? Tried for trying. — Eleanor Catton

we're apt to forget that symmetry is not an obvious quality that every creature must have. — Richard Dawkins

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth. — Blaise Pascal

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form. — Norm MacDonald

What about the Symmetry?! — Atsushi Ohkubo

More likely drinking Coca-Cola... than water will be a symmetry... — Deyth Banger

The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain. — Bryant McGill

My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always telling me what I should do. — Anna Quindlen

We wish for a symmetry of feeling, but we rarely get it. It is painful to be the one who loves more, and painful to be the one who loves less. — Brian Morton

You can't chop down a symmetry — Jane Siberry

PFF, whatever Monk is more like Symmetry... so I am going to be there... so far you know where to find me.... — Deyth Banger

Om (AUM) the Divine song is at the same time Symmetry, Supersymmetry, broken Symmetry, and the unbroken Symmetry of Nature. — Amit Ray

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

An elegant mechanism emerges: a broken symmetry, hidden from our view by a field pervading space. — Sean Carroll

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration. — Edith Wharton

Symmetry is for God, not for us. — Louis De Bernieres

Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. — Victor Hugo

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence. — Marquis De Sade

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox. — Richard Steele

Other people savor the symmetry of opposites. — Lionel Shriver

If the chain symmetry is maintained in the crystal lattice, the possible occurrence of different space groups is considerably restricted. — Giulio Natta

I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm far more interested in symmetry. — Anonymous

Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things. — Gore Vidal

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. — Plotinus

Hedge was enthralled by her symmetry, yet the word was too cool and dry. She was beautiful. — Sean DeLauder

Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry. — Fabiola Gianotti

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups. — Steven Weinberg

Beauty is not symmetry of parts- that's so impotent -as Mishima says, beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, & finally destroys ... — John Geddes

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty ... — Winston Churchill

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it. — Susan Messing

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry. — Julie Metz

Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon. — Joshua Edward Smith

And thinking of her waiting to be found, while he was waiting to find, gave a beautiful symmetry to the love he felt for her. — Howard Jacobson

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity — Shane Koyczan

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another. — George Herbert

I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry — Denise Verrico

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. — Derek Walcott

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me. — Dan Shechtman

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape. — Neal A. Maxwell

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses — Edith Wharton

< ... > out of love of symmetry, just as people put two vases above a fireplace. — Guy De Maupassant

What's the Symmetry???

John Doe...

Jane Doe... wtf... wtf... — Deyth Banger

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern. — James Gleick

Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry. — Edward Fredkin

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? — William Blake

The design of a temple depends on symmetry , the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry. — Hermann Weyl

Symmetry is what we see at a glance. — Blaise Pascal

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. — Dave Van Ronk

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered. — Christopher Hitchens

Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation. — Marcelo Gleiser

You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me. — Audrey Niffenegger

Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed. — Robert Galbraith

The mile has a classic symmetry ... It's a play in four acts. — John Landy

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference ... — Blaise Pascal