A Quote by Robert Johnson

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

Robert Johnson

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Robert Johnson
American - Psychologist
May 8, 1911 - August 16, 1938

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

Politics swings like a pendulum.

Ed Gillespie

The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness

Brandon Mull

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

Graham Greene

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

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Today I said to the calculus students, "I know, you're looking at this series and you don't see what I'm warning you about. You look and it and you think, 'I trust this series. I would take candy from this series. I would get in a car with this series.' But I'm going to warn you, this series is out to get you. Always remember: The harmonic series diverges. Never forget it."

Alexandre Borovik

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

Ivanka Trump

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

Gian-Carlo Rota

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

Andrew Lam

I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.

Karen Katz

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Albert Einstein

Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It's like when the Internet bubble crashed.

Steve Jurvetson

It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.