Pendulum Swinging Quotes

#1. Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.

Jaggi Vasudev

#2. Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

Ray Bradbury

#3. But Tom," said the moon, "the swinging of your pendulums! Everyone's a pendulum swinging, to and fro, and always you're getting hit by someone else's swinging pendulum. You're minding your own business, but someone else'e pendulum is swinging around, and pow! you get it in the head.

Dave Eggers

#4. I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home.

Diyar Harraz

#5. Men who have seen life and death ... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

Voltaire

#6. Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am.
Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me.

Carolyn Mackler

#8. The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#9. Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

Eugene Field

#10. When you shift, will your hawk form be plucked, then?

Sarah J. Maas

#11. I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.

Harvey Pekar

#12. I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

Pope Francis

#13. The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.

Clifford D. Simak

#14. One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Napoleon Hill

#15. Penny grabs my arm when I walk past Baz's bed on the way to the bathroom. "It's good to see you," she whispers.
I smile. Again. Penny makes my cheeks hurt. "Don't make a scene," I whisper back.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. Now it is as if she can hear the pendulum in the air in front of her: that huge golden bob, as wide across as a barrel, swinging on and on, never stopping. Grooving and regrooving its inhuman truth into the floor.

Anthony Doerr

#17. And my brain goes quiet and my heart is calm and my life is at a standstill, and the pendulum that I am, all the swinging to and fro, finally stops and I feel like I finally found my center.

Katy Evans

#18. We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#19. Longchenpa said, "Good concepts are like a golden chain. Bad concepts are like an iron chain.

Anam Thubten

#20. No, no, no separate but equal ... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

Mo Rocca

#21. We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

Darren Hardy

#22. The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.

Susan Howatch

#23. For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.

John Grierson

#24. The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp.

John Freeman