Lines Quote by Zygmunt Bauman

Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity…

— Bjork

One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting…

— Alan Lightman

It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's…

— Graham Greene

A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.

— Ivanka Trump

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I…

— Leon Foucault

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

— Robert Johnson

The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and…

— Samuel Beckett

For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision"…

— Steven Chu

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as…

— Alan Lightman

Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in…

— Anonymous

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow