The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of… — Barbara Ehrenreich 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 observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those… — Leon Foucault Copy Share Image
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
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
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
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
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
I’m not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all… — Rod Humble Copy Share Image
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein 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
The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging… — Ilana Mercer 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
It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of… — Graham Greene 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
I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority… — Vince Cable 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
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
Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction… — Augusten Burroughs 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
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
