Top 10 Pendulums Quotes

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

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

Revenge, Justice, Pendulums

Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.1, Macmillan

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

Edgar Allan Poe

Slumber, Lost, Pendulums

Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Pit and the Pendulum”, p.4, Booklassic

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

Robert Johnson

Swings, Individual, Pendulums

Politics swings like a pendulum.

Ed Gillespie

Swings, Pendulums

"Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. April 12, 2005.

From that moment the pendulum went into reverse

Gerald Sinstadt

Football, Moments, Pendulums

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

Ideas, Birth, Pendulums

"As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.