Nature Quote by Umberto Eco

“I knew the earth was rotating, and I with it, and Saint-Martin-des-Champs and all Paris with me, and that together we were rotating beneath…

— Umberto Eco

“Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing?”

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth”

— Archimedes

“I swing like a pendulum between the darkness and the light, sometimes it feels like gallows other times it feels like flight.”

— Collette O'Mahony

“Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing…

— Three Initiates

“He was hanging from one of the rafters in a laundry up near Frau Diller's. Another human pendulum. Another clock, stopped.”

— Markus Zusak

“some place to stand and place a lever, there’s nowhere from which to move the world.”

— Cherie Priest

“my world was delicately balanced,but the scales never hung even.”

— Rebecca Donovan

“one must occasionally stand the world on its head in order to put it on its feet.”

— Henning Mankell