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
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life. — Gu Cheng 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
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. — Gian-Carlo Rota 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
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
Maybe love is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth, slowly, steadily, and sometimes you don't know where it will come… — Tracey Garvis-Graves Copy Share Image
Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the… — Anthony Standen 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 combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third… — Austen Chamberlain 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
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
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
Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to… — Man Ray 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
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it.… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are… — George Soros Copy Share Image
As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor. — Stephen S. Roach Copy Share Image
As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain. — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
