Pendulum Quotes

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

Mind, Wrong, Sense

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

Long, Country, Everyone

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

Time, True, Past

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

Freedom, Battle, Between

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

Cool, Career, Trying

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

Music, Crazy, Find

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

Waiting, Again, Confident

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

Daily, Show, Rest

Politics swings like a pendulum.
Ed Gillespie

Politics, Swings

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

History, Individual, Series

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

Rest, Force, Position

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

Thought, Big, Trouble

I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day.
Susan Anton

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

Human, Thought, Ideas

The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp.
John Freeman

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