Pendulum Swings Quotes

#1. The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness

Brandon Mull

#2. Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ

D. A. Carson

#3. It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

Graham Greene

#4. The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Clint Eastwood

#5. He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhiliration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings. (The Power and the Glory)

Graham Greene

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

Robert Johnson

#7. Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

Jon Stewart

#8. Amsterdam: Where the pendulum swings from God to a guilder.

Jessie Burton

#9. Wherever you put it, Foucault's Pendulum swings from a motionless point while the earth rotates beneath it. Every point of the universe is a fixed point: all you have to do is hang the Pendulum from it.

Umberto Eco

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

Ivanka Trump

#11. Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information ... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

Zadie Smith

#12. The Services offer the cleanest and most natural support to an aggressive foreign policy; expansion of the empire appeals powerfully to the aristocracy and the professional classes by offering new and ever-growing fields for the honorable and profitable employment of their sons.

J.A. Hobson

#13. I am not the body, I am not the mind
I am the spirit, eternal, joyful and kind.

Debasish Mridha

#14. To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.

Bhakti Charu Swami

#15. We must be the compassion we wish to see in others!

Janet Gonzalez-Mena

#16. History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#17. 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

#18. If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

Alec Ross

#19. I don't want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave.

Nicki Minaj

#20. Vitrine. Upstairs his wife runs a vacuum cleaner; he can

Anthony Doerr

#21. I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me - it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, 'I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.'

Kelsea Ballerini

#22. To me, the most important rules in life are:
1. Never trust people you love.
2. Never trust people you don't love.
3. Never trust people at all.

Girl234

#23. Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Albert Einstein

#24. All rooms move. Each of them swings in a pendulum motion between evening and morning, moving its inhabitants closer to the unknown land where they will be no more. But

Leena Krohn

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

Tony Gubba

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Alan Lightman

#29. 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

#30. There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

#31. Damn painted savage stabs himself on the floor of the Open Council, challengess us before the King, and nothing is done! Government by committee! Everyone pulling their own way! You can only react, never prepare!

Joe Abercrombie

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

#33. Maybe love is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth, slowly, steadily, and sometimes you don't know where it will come to rest.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#34. When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Sigmund Freud

#35. 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

#36. Politics swings like a pendulum.

Ed Gillespie

#37. History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

Allan Nevins

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

Rene Crevel