quotes about Pendulums

last updated: November 28, 2023

Politics swings like a pendulum.
-- Ed Gillespie

Source : "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. April 12, 2005.

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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

Source : "As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.

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From that moment the pendulum went into reverse
-- Gerald Sinstadt

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The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.
-- Stephen S. Roach

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I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.
-- Andrew Lam

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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“FACULTY PSYCHOLOGY is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly , the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life . Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought.”

Source : "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.
“The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.”
“I believe every single woman could accomplish what I've accomplished.”
“Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met.”
“If it must be done, it's best done bravely.”

Source : Courtney Milan (2014). “The Turner Series (An Enhanced Box Set)”, p.250, Macmillan
“Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.”
“Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.”
“You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.”
“There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.”
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY