There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All right, the pendulum isn’t working. Sometimes you need an accelerant to help it.” – Death “Like gasoline?” – Nick “Yes, Nick.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor. — Stephen S. Roach Copy Share Image
The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities. — Patrick Dixon Copy Share Image
Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image