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Pendulum Quotes

“I swing like a pendulum between the darkness and the light, sometimes it feels like gallows other times it feels like flight.”

Poetry Flight Darkness Quotes Verse Gallows Dark And Light Pendulum

Book:The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

Source: The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse

“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth is, and the history of man shows, that he has advanced. Events, like the pendulum of a clock have swung forward and backward, but after all, man, like the hands, has gone steadily on. Man is growing grander. He is not degenerating. Nations and individuals fail and die, and make room for higher forms. The intellectual horizon of the world widens as the centuries pass. Ideals grow grander and purer; the difference between justice and mercy becomes less and less; liberty enlarges, and love intensifies as the years sweep on. The ages of force and fear, of cruelty and wrong, are behind us and the real Eden is beyond. It is said that a desire for knowledge lost us the Eden of the past; but whether that is true or not, it will certainly give us the Eden of the future.”

Source: Some Mistakes of Moses

“When I open the case and give the pendulum a gentle push, it swings three times and then stops, as if it has forgotten how to keep going.”

Memory Forgetful Clocks Pendulum

Book:The Clock Forgets Me

Source: The Clock Forgets Me

“Swung by the swing of her seat in her tantalizing gait, her hair in plait pictured a pendulum that caressed her bottom.”

Grace Walking Female Beauty Gait Graceful Seat Pendulum Plaiting Bottoms

Book:Benign Flame: Saga of Love

Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love

“The "mood of the nation," in 1972, was so overwhelmingly vengeful, greedy, bigoted, and blindly reactionary that no presidential candidate who even faintly reminded "typical voters" of the fear & anxiety they'd felt during the constant "social upheavals" of the 1960s had any chance at all of beating Nixon last year--not even Ted Kennedy--because the pendulum "effect" that began with Nixon's slim victory in '68 was totally irreversible by 1972. After a decade of left-bent chaos, the Silent Majority was so deep in a behavorial sink that their only feeling for politics was a powerful sense of revulsion. All they wanted in the White House was a man who would leave them alone and do anything necessary to bring calmness back into their lives”

Nixon Pendulum 1972 Presidential Cycle

Book:Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

Source: Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72