#pendulum

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. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#daily #daily show #equal #hybrid #kept

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. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#centre #certain #certain time #distance #finds

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

— John Freeman

#camp #pendulum #swinging

There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#lenin #umberto-eco #love

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

— Carl Jung

#mind #nonsense #pendulum #right #right and wrong

Politics swings like a pendulum. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#pendulum #politics #swings

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

— Clint Eastwood

#come #country #everyone #far #long

Doing the limbo under a razor pendulum is a lot cheaper than having a caesarian in a hospital. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #pendulum #pregnancy #funny

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#immortality #life-after-death #the-pit-and-the-pendulum #death

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed. ↗

— O. Henry

#the-pendulum #wife #life