Words matter. These are the best Pendulum Quotes from famous people such as Francis X. Suarez, Mo Rocca, Noreena Hertz, Dante Basco, Ana Navarro, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Politics is a pendulum that swings constantly. It’s really hard to say what’s going to happen in four years or in two years or in one year.
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.
I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.
Depictions of race have changed so much since, like, the ’50s, where white people just played every race. But the pendulum swings both ways: I’m Filipino-American. If I had to wait for a Filipino role to come out to get work, I couldn’t eat. There are barely any roles out there.
Politics is a pendulum.
I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes – the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn’t capable of anything.
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
We’re waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.
Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.
Politics swings like a pendulum.
When things get better, there’s a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others.
I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day.
There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, ‘OK, we’re gonna do gay people; we’re gonna do queens.’ And then it’s like, ‘No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.’
So I think in those circumstances, there’s some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren’t vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn’t have to get caught in that.
In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.
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.
What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that you begin to see how many of the ‘new’ ideas are simply old ones coming back into view on the swing of the pendulum, with new and faster hardware to back it up.
I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me – it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, ‘I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.’
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.
