There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. — Andrew Lam 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
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
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
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
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
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
In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door"… — Bryan Fuller 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
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
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
Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't… — Warren Farrell 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
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
It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play… — Walter M. Miller, Jr 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
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom.… — Andy Goldsworthy 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
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
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
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 intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
