Pendulum Quotations

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.

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.

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.

Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum has swung back to this kind of food, and it gives me the greatest hope for the future, especially because we're living in a time with issues like polluted Gulf Coast seafood and food labeled organic that may not really be organic.

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.

Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.

I enjoy co-writing. I've been co-writing for a long time now. I'm sure the pendulum will swing back to writing alone. For the moment I just enjoy working with someone else.

I happen to believe that the pendulum is returning to the growth side.

People have developed very inappropriate concepts of what happens. I think, in part, it is because of Hollywood. Hollywood's depiction is someone swinging a pendulum of some sort and gaining control of you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I think it's the pendulum swinging back toward growth from defensive stocks.

I think the patriarchal world has reigned supreme for so long that the pendulum's swinging too far the other way. It needed to be rectified, but to swing the pendulum too far the other way is almost as bad.

It has been a wild ride these last couple of weeks. Not that many races ago we were safely in second place and Truex Jr. was looking like he was going to take this thing without a fight. Fortunately the pendulum swung in our direction and we are right back fighting for the championship.

I think it's just a pendulum swinging back to the classics, and Disney is a true American and global classic. To the extent they license to other luxury brands they can be successful. Disney alone would not be as powerful.

We have a long way to go in mastering that art, ... As we identified the fact we were under pricing, the pendulum swung too far over to only improve price. The pendulum should be stopped in the middle so we have a proper balance between volume and price.

There is little of the grand style about these new prism, pendulum and chronograph philosophers. They mean business, not chivalry. . . . the experimental method has quite changed the face of science so far as the latter is a record of mere work done.

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

The pendulum has swung back in favor of a March rate hike. The dollar-bull camp is based on the interest-rate differentials. They have really renewed their widening.

The pendulum in Hollywood is coming back to story-telling.

The pendulum is definitely returning and has been for a year.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong

Workers are asking for bigger pay increases and they are getting them. The pendulum has swung decidedly in favor of workers.

We're seeing buyers coming in and making very low offers. That's just evidence of the pendulum swing.

Another pendulum shift is inevitable, and new desires are surfacing.

There is still a requirement to be protective of sources and methods, but we are trying to move the pendulum over closer to the side where, as information is collected, it's available across the coalition battle space to all consumers, all people who have a need.

The money helps to restore trust and faith in our system. But we don't want the pendulum to swing too far and stifle innovation.

With AOL likely switching to Navigator, the pendulum will swing heavily back to Navigator.

In the past we've focused on putting more features in, and now the pendulum has to swing the other way to manage the knowledge and wisdom,

It's a mystery to me how we've elected such right-wing lawmakers who are trying to keep government off our backs, but apparently don't mind putting government in our bedrooms. I think it is time to get active and push the pendulum back the other way.

It was our worst nightmare realized. They hadn't played well for two games and we had played well for two games. You knew the pendulum could slide in the other direction, and it slid a long ways in the other direction.

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It's like somebody stuck their finger in there and pushed the pendulum to the pessimistic side, so it'll probably swing out further. So the back swing is probably going to have a lot more momentum than it would have had otherwise. The negative is the news is going to be worse in the short-term, but we're probably going to get over it sooner.

The latest office market indicators show the pendulum continues to swing away from tenants and toward landlords as we enter 2006. Tenants have increasingly fewer choices and the supply pipeline continues to be largely muted -- foreshadowing a further tightening in the marketplace during the coming quarters.

The market is overdone with fund buying and it's time for the pendulum to swing the other way.