Swings Quotes - Page 19

• Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, People, Approval

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.359, e-artnow

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• 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

  Riding, Hopelessness, Goodness

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.61, Penguin

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• My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club.

  Tiger Woods

  Dad, Golf, Clubs

  "Online Extra: A Dream of a Driver for Tiger (extended)". Interview with Roger O. Crockett, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity." "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing." "Don't even joke about that.

  Derek Landy

  Feelings, Humanity, Mood

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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

  Opposites, Boredom, Pairs

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

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• An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face."Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me." I took a swing at him, but he jumped back nimbly, and all I did was jar my left arm, making it hurt. He laughed at me, then pointed at the woods ouside the window."Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it.

  James Patterson

  Hurt, Tree, Looks

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• If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

  Joan Baez

  Way, Pleasure, Sexuality

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• My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.

  Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

  Struggle, Trying, Firsts

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• Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what.

  Angela Knight

  Hey, Sawdust, Care

  Angela Knight (2011). “Master of Shadows”, p.67, Penguin

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• You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

  Bob Hope

  Comedy, Rich

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• I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

  Maria Sharapova

  Running, Trying, Transition

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• 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

  Ideas, Balance, Battle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Big doors swing on little hinges.

  W. Clement Stone

  Doors, Growth, Littles

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• As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.

  J. B. Smoove

  Moving, Successful, Golf

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• Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.

  Gary Gulman

  Ideas, Underwear, Balls

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• When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.

  Earl Woods

  Golf, Balls, Months

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• It think acceptance levels sort of swings back and forth. Like in the 60's there was a lot more freedom with sex that doesn't exist today. Language has gotten pushed a bit farther and violence is way far out.

  Bob Saget

  Sex, Acceptance, Thinking

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• I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

  Allison Joseph

  Way, Speak, Poet

  Source: blog.pshares.org

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• If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon . . . . The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood.

  Donna Tartt

  Blood, Color, Land

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.96, Vintage

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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, People, Democracy

  Source: progressive.org

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• The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

  Nick Harkaway

  Errors, Tree, Branches

  "The Gone-Away World". Book by Nick Harkaway, June 2008.

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• Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Keys, Doors, Secret

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• She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.

  Markus Zusak

  Kids, Guilt, Looks

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.173, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Girl, Cutting, Opportunity

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• Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Fall, Practice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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