Top 8 Pendulums Quotes & Sayings

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

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

I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.

If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.

Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.