Swings Quotes - Page 23

• 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.

  George Soros

  Country, Balls, May

  "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered". Book by George Soros, 1998.

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• It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Motivational, Women, Athlete

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• Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.

  Nick Hornby

  Heart, Cds, Finding Yourself

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.186, Penguin

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• When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.

  Alexander Blok

  Blood, Land, Rivers

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• I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Earth, I Can

  "Lunar-Golfer Shepard Takes Swings In Tourney". The Orlando Sentinel, p. A2, August 13, 1992.

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• I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

  Albert Pujols

  Trying, Balls, Lines

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking too many.

  Richard Armour

  Golf, Practice, Helpful

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• False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Giving, Reason, Absurdity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.57

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• By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Giving, Privilege

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.88

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• It is time to put up a love-swing!
  Tie the body and then tie the mind so that they
  swing between the arms of the Secret One you love,
  Bring the water that falls from the clouds to your eyes,
  and cover yourself inside entirely with the shadow of night.
  Bring your face up close to his ear,
  and then talk only about what you want deeply to happen.

  Kabir

  Fall, Eye, Night

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.

  Charlie Day

  Cousin, New Orleans, Wife

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over by your own thoughts, desires, and fears. It is blurred over by your emotional swings. You become dull.

  Frederick Lenz

  Emotional, Mind, Perception

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• Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing - but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.

  Saul Alinsky

  Wall, Sorry, Home

  "Gingrich attacks on Obama resurrect Saul Alinsky" by James Rosen, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2012.

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• You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivational, Book, Inspiration

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• Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These Actor s end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. I know that's the way Heath Ledger feels and Ben Affleck feels the same way, too. We want to take the big swings.

  Matt Damon

  People, Choices, Trying

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• Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Together, Glue

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• In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing

  Dave Pelzer

  Baseball, Mistake, Fall

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• I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Realizing, Bigs

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• I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Thinking, Mind, Albums

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• The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.

  Guillermo Gonzalez

  Moon, Darkness, Tiny

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• The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.

  Stone Gossard

  Song, Writing, Focus

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• Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration of their assets. Borrowers must always remember that capital markets can be extremely fickle, and that it is never safe to assume a maturing loan can be rolled over. Even if you are unleveraged, the leverage employed by others can drive dramatic price and valuation swings; sudden unavailability of leverage in the economy may trigger an economic downturn.

  Seth Klarman

  Government, Fickle, May

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• Lindy Hoppers never die - they just swing out.

  Frankie Manning

  Dies

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• My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big wrinkle on the other side. Then you iron that one out, turn it over and there is yet another wrinkle.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Wrinkles, Iron

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