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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. -- Umberto Eco
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. -- Woodrow Wilson
Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist. -- Umberto Eco
Politics swings like a pendulum. -- Ed Gillespie
The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp. -- John Freeman
I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day. -- Susan Anton
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. -- Carl Jung
We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will. -- Don Bluth
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. -- Robert Johnson
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive. -- Clint Eastwood
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. -- Eugene Field
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest. -- Pieter Zeeman
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
No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show. -- Mo Rocca
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. -- John Podesta
I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned. -- Orlando Bloom
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes. -- Bjork
In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level. -- Henry Rollins
I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences. -- Noreena Hertz
If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another. -- Bruce Lipton
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
Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum has swung back to this kind of food, and it gives me the greatest hope for the future, especially because we're living in a time with issues like polluted Gulf Coast seafood and food labeled organic that may not really be organic. -- Adam Richman
I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me - it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, 'I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.' -- Kelsea Ballerini
Well, I think it's kind of interesting how the Osmond name has been really seen on both sides of the pendulum. There's obviously the bubblegum side, but for people who really know about music, it's clear on the other side. As a matter of fact, I find it quite ironic that Metallica used to cover 'Crazy Horses.' It was a cutting-edge album. -- Donny Osmond
The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness -- Brandon Mull
From that moment the pendulum went into reverse -- Gerald Sinstadt
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images. -- Rene Crevel
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor. -- Stephen S. Roach
The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum. -- Zygmunt Bauman
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. -- C.G. Jung
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. -- Andrew Lam
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. -- Albert Einstein
A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain. -- Ivanka Trump
So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole. -- Tony Gubba
As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back. -- Brian K. Vaughan
Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen. -- Carl Sandburg
Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life. -- Gu Cheng
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle. -- Thomas Jefferson
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. -- Yann Martel
Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. -- Lord Byron
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents. -- Khoi Vinh
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
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. -- Ray Bradbury
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. -- Paul Davies
... 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. -- Sam Altman
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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
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. -- Vince Cable
That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it. -- Jack Nicklaus
No! I don't want to Ouija, or do the pendulum thing, and I swear if I see one tarot card or rune stone I'll yack cupcake all over you. (Grace) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned -- Orlando Bloom

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