Pendulums Quotes

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

  Carl Jung

  Thoughtful, House, Mind

  "Beyond the Visible: Uniting Science and Religion". Book by Issa Gammoh, p. 23, February 13, 2014.

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Blessing, Swings

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

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

  Albert Einstein

  Swings, Politics, Anarchy

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Distance, Past, Law

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Swings, Riding, Hopelessness

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.61, Penguin

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

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Swings, Waiting

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• Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

  Frank Herbert

  Revenge, Justice, Claims

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.1, Macmillan

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

  Lord Byron

  Men, Laughing, Feelings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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

  Robert Johnson

  Swings, Individual, Caught

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• The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness

  Brandon Mull

  Light, Swings, Darkness

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• 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.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Journey, Thinking, Swings

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• We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Politics, Littles

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.385, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Government, Swings, People

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

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Marching On, Progress, Lines

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.

  Laura Moriarty

  Children, Growing Up, Swings

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• 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

  Love Is, Swings, Sometimes

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• Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Acceptance, One Direction, Swings

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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?

  Umberto Eco

  Couple, Encounters, Damnation

  "Foucault's Pendulum". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• 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

  Men, Discovery, Swings

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• 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.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Swings, People, Common Sense

  "The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010". www.jewishworldreview.com. January 29, 2010.

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• 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

  Swings, Ideas, Balance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.

  Gu Cheng

  Time, Distance, Moving

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• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Law, Opinion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sweet, Musical, Fancy

  Edgar Allan Poe (1947). “The Pit and the Pendulum. - Wien: Leinmüller 1947. 32 S. kl. 8° (Englische Lesehefte f. Schule u. Haus. 3.)”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

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• When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Time, Ocean, Mean

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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