Swings And Roundabouts Quotes

#1. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.

Douglas Booth

#2. Whenever people asked "How are you?" by way of social nicety I lied through my teeth. "Not too bad," I'd say. Or "Swings and roundabouts." At least I didn't say "Fine, thanks." or "A livid scar cuts across my very being.

Julia Leigh

#3. Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts; ... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul.

Zadie Smith

#4. Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

James Hunt

#5. Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made along the way. Life is a kind of swings and roundabouts situation; if you can't kick a football you turn to other pursuits.

John McLeod

#6. Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you make a great record, and it clicks with people. And other times it passes them by; there's nothing you can do. It's still the same record.

Paul Weller

#7. I can be nostalgic for the past, and I can romanticize the future, but I cannot sugar coat the here and now. I think that's why I try not to think about it, and I think that's the exact same reason why I need to.

Ellie Rose McKee

#8. these lovely, lying children, I saw very clearly that there was no redemption here.

Suki Kim

#9. I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

Laura Dave

#10. what you loses on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

Gertrude Lawrence

#11. What you gain on the swings, you lose on the roundabouts.

Robert Jordan

#12. Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#13. Sometimes you just have to roll in it.

Charlaine Harris

#14. Both my book Giving Back and The Soul of Philanthropy exhibit are borne of the idea that philanthropy is deeper than your pockets. In fact, the most potent philanthropy is derived from what's within your hands, your heart, your head and your soul.

Valaida Fullwood