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“Outside the window, the trees were dancing in their disagreeable manner, somehow looking closer than before. Like unholy pendulums.”

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Book:My Annihilation

Source: My Annihilation

“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.”

People Thinking Bigs Trouble Circumstances Vulnerable Swings Pendulums

Author:John Podesta

“If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.”

“If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.”

Ifs May Government Form Periods Democrat Combination Minorities Swings Coalitions Pendulums Minority Government

Author:Vince Cable

“For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.”

People Ends Matter Causes Term Common Optimism Common Sense Observation Swings Short Term Peasants Ideological Pun Bedrock Pendulums

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.”

Said Fashion Truth Is Extremes Skepticism Credulity Pendulums Extraterrestrial Extraterrestrial Life

Author:Paul Davies

“There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.”

People World Kind Four This World Fool Moron Pendulums

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.”

Needs Limits Symbols Swings Scope Pendulums

Book:Putting My Foot in it

Source: Putting My Foot in it

“Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are supposed to come to rest at an equilibrium point and that point is supposed to be the same irrespective of the interim fluctuations. Instead, as I told Congress, financial markets behaved more like a wrecking ball, swinging from country to country and knocking over the weaker ones. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the international financial system itself constituted the main ingredient in the meltdown process.”

“Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.”

Men Should Firsts Has Beens Enough Sex Changed Should Have Feminist Adam Buttons 1960s Should Have Been Pendulums

Author:Warren Farrell

“The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.”

Ifs Men Would Be Party Existence Cases Elements Benefits Thirds Difficulty Stronger Occasions Combination Labour Swings Introducing Labour Party Pendulums Third Parties Liberal Party

Author:Austen Chamberlain

“The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.”

Party Republican Democratic Partnership Republican Party Pendulums

Author:Ilana Mercer

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

Artist Waiting Swings Back Again Pendulums

Author:Don Bluth

“From that moment the pendulum went into reverse”

Moments Football That Moment Reverse Commentators Pendulums

Author:Gerald Sinstadt

“The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.”

“In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.”

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“As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increasingly tiresome pendulum swing is to change our conception of what philosophy is good for. But that is not something which will be accomplished by a few neat arguments. It will be accomplished, if it ever is, by a long, slow process of cultural change - that is to say, of change in common sense, changes in the intuitions available for being pumped up by philosophical arguments.”

“To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities.”

Opportunity Numbers Trends New Business Pendulums Business Opportunity

Author:Patrick Dixon

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

Impossible Balance Scales Swings Pendulums

Author:Ivanka Trump

“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?”

“Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.”

World Hands Lying Watches Cases Taken Position Wounds This Life Makers Peter Departed Horizontal Pendulums

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”

Intelligent Sells Investing Investors Optimist Pessimist Realist Pendulums

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“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.”

Knows Sometimes Love Is Swings Back And Forth Love Is Like Pendulums Maybe Love

Author:Tracey Garvis-Graves

“The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.”

Humans Two Real Suffering Evil Term Conditions Window Artistic Boredom Tolerable Pendulums

Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett

“... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.”

World Way Feels Stills Ideas Today Bad Ideas Pendulums

Author:Sam Altman

“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.”

Men Has Beens Able Spiritual Moving Dying Tears Graves Life And Death Companion Unbroken Continuum Pendulums Perplexed

Author:Voltaire

“Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.”

Men Matter Feelings Laughing Tears Admire Despise Pendulums Smile And Tears

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.”

People Thinking Knows Way Years Long Culture Walks Risk Thirty Plus Progressive Spells Mainstream Swings Goddess Discourse Way Of Thinking Risk-taking Hyper Dominating Walks Of Life Pendulums

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.”

Poetry Is Unseen Connecting Exhibits Pendulums Inside And Outside

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.”

Way Character Interesting Winner Loser Fascinated Main Characters Pendulums

Author:Umberto Eco

“The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.”

Mathematics Remains Swings Timing Abstraction Back And Forth Pendulums

Book:Indiscrete Thoughts

Source: Indiscrete Thoughts

“The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance.”

“I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.”

People Knows Government Political Know How Too Much Conditions Citizens Calling Instance Vain Swim Fewer Swings Pendulums Lifeboats

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door" and at the same time I was reading a lot of Clive Barker, who was on the other end of the horror pendulum: insidious and disturbingly psychological. I found it fascinating how these two authors came at horror from two totally different perspectives.”

“I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents.”

Ifs Thinking Important Ideas Seeing Conversation Documents Pendulums

Author:Khoi Vinh

“The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

Mind House Thoughtful Nonsense Sense Of Humor Synchronicity Memories Dreams Reflections Pendulums

Author:Carl Jung

“Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum.... They seem to have an un-argue-out-able position, as is the manner of sophists, but this is no guarantee that they are right.”

Thinking Seems Able Science Position Wide Arguing Guarantees Thinker Swings Fashionable Guarantees That Pendulums

Author:Anthony Standen

“As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.”

Leader Events Movement Pendulums

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.”

Term Seeing Hopeful Immigrants Swings Pendulums

Author:Andrew Lam

“The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.”

Lines Progress Straight Lines Pendulums Marching On

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these journals, these memoirs - "Surely our leaders will stop this nonsense. Surely someone will take on these thugs. Surely the pendulum will swing back." Everyone was sitting at home going, "Well, they haven't come for me. This is crazy, but surely someone's going to take care of it." We all have to take care of it.”

People Writing Wells Home Care Leader Democracy Crazy Havens Sitting Take Care Memoir Germany Decent Nonsense Swings Journal Humane Thug Parliamentary Pendulums Parliamentary Democracy

Author:Naomi Wolf

“In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so awful, but it's here. The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it's never going to swing back.”

People Left Term Democracy Taken Dear Shoulders Awful Swings Pendulums

Author:Dar Williams

“Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.”

Ifs Past Law Certain Sides Opinion Distance Pessimism Gravity Centre Pendulums

Book:Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer

“I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.”

Ifs Thinking Walks Careers Journey Walking Mountain Including Wander Valleys Gravity Swings Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering Pendulums Swing Sets

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“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.”

Ideas Whole Culture Balance Battle Series Tyranny Checks Swings Pendulums

Author:Jon Stewart

“Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?”

“I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.”

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

Life Art Simple Complexes Realistic Sociology Back And Forth Pendulums

Book:THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“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.”

Men Made Moments Danger Strange Discovery Misery Comparison Swings Exhilaration Pendulums

Book:The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory