Pendulum Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

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.

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.

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.

Politics swings like a pendulum.