Ideas came with explosive
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Eugene Field
Pendulums
And then there stole
And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave. Edgar Allan Poe
Even in the grave,
Even in the grave, all is not lost. Edgar Allan Poe
Politics swings like a
Politics swings like a pendulum. Ed Gillespie
Justice belongs to those
Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion Frank Herbert
I simply state that
I simply state that I’m a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation – with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and … Read more
We’re waiting for the
We’re waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will. Don Bluth
In terms of our
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 … Read more
Damn all false antitheses
Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ D. A. Carson
The country has come
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