Pendulum Swing Quotes

#1. The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

Yann Martel

#2. 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 to the right,
is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm
compensates

Three Initiates

#3. I'm not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all that. But in the long-term I'm optimistic that we'll see the pendulum swing back in the other direction towards more privacy.

Rod Humble

#4. So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

John Podesta

#5. Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

Rene Crevel

#6. During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?

Mary Barnett Gilson

#7. People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.

George Hammond

#8. So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.

Tony Gubba

#9. Life does find a way to create a balance somewhere between smiles and tears. And, like a pendulum's swing, life seldom stays in one place. Life keeps on moving until, one day, it stops.

Ralph Webster

#10. I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

Tippi Hedren

#11. We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

Don Bluth

#12. That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.

Jack Nicklaus

#13. about the biting white ants that moved in menacing ribbons over the plains, or the vipers or the sun, which sometimes pulsed so brightly it seemed to want to flatten you or eat you alive.

Paula McLain

#14. I decide this is just A Bad Day. We all get them, because grief doesn't care how many years it's been.

Sara Barnard

#15. I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day.

Susan Anton

#16. So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

Tupac Shakur

#17. Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

Lee Krasner

#19. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Paul Gibbons

#20. If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.

Bruce Lipton

#21. I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

Gillian Flynn

#22. We're stepping into a new world, and an entire way of thinking must be changed. But the old ideas can't be easily discarded. Like a pendulum, new ways must swing to the other side before returning.

Gail Tsukiyama

#23. I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Ruta Sepetys

#24. If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Fred Wilson

#25. Yet we keep returning to reason precisely because it occupies the middle place; it is the revisited point on the swing of the pendulum between scepticism and enthusiasm.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#26. I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality.

Wilma Mankiller

#27. Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#29. To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.

Roger Housden