Pendulums Quotes - Page 3

• A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.

  Ivanka Trump

  Swings, Balance, Impossible

  "Ivanka Trump Describes What It's Really Like To Be A Woman Who Works". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. January 26, 2015.

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• For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.

  Steven Chu

  Education, Science, Garden

  "Steven Chu - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• 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

  Cupcakes, Grace, Over You

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.18, Macmillan

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• It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Believe, Mean

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• To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities.

  Patrick Dixon

  Opportunity, Numbers, Trends

  "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.

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• Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum.... They seem to have an un-argue-out-able position, as is the manner of sophists, but this is no guarantee that they are right.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Thinking, Swings

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• All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

  Lee Krasner

  Moving, Swings, Conformity

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press

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• The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the hands moving, for a child can see all this; but he sees also the parts of the clock, and in what connexion the suspended weight stands to the wheel-work, and the pendulum to the moving hands.

  Justus von Liebig

  Children, Moving, Science

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• 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

  Lying, Taken, Hands

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• 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

  Eye, Cutting, Blow

  Roland Penrose (Sir.), Man Ray (1975). “Man Ray”, New York Graphic Society Books

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• It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Teeth, Kind

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.123, Random House

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• The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.

  Stephen S. Roach

  Might, Economic, Wells

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• Even in the grave, all is not lost.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Slumber, Lost, Graves

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Pit and the Pendulum”, p.4, Booklassic

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• There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

  Umberto Eco

  People, World, Four

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Investing, Realist

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so awful, but it's here. The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it's never going to swing back.

  Dar Williams

  Taken, Swings, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

  Yann Martel

  Swings, Opposites, Boredom

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.240, Vintage Canada

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• 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

  Intelligent, Swings, Optimism

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive results. One collects numbers that, compared with the predictions of theory, permit one to appreciate how far the true pendulum approximates or differs from the abstract system called 'the simple pendulum'.

  Leon Foucault

  Science, Simple, Numbers

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• 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

  Men, Black, Poverty

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

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• 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

  Moving, Science, Paris

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• In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Travel, Believe, Years

  Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...”, p.345, e-artnow

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

  Andrew Lam

  Swings, Hopeful, Term

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

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• As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Leader, Events, Movement

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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