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Politics swings like a pendulum. -- Ed Gillespie
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
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor. -- Stephen S. Roach
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
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. -- Albert Einstein
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. -- Robert Johnson
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
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
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
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
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
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
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. -- Benjamin Graham
I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy. -- Gillian Flynn
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
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow. -- Man Ray
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose to make known to the [Paris] Academy [of Sciences] are principally addressed to the direction of the plane of its oscillation, which, moving gradually from east to west, provides evidence to the senses of the diurnal movement of the terrestrial globe. -- Leon Foucault
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen. -- Carl Sandburg
To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities. -- Patrick Dixon
Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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