The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering--that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artis...tic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. Divine Providence has a mission for her children to fulfill; though a mi...ssion unrecognized by political economists. There is ever a moral balance preserved in the universe, like the vibrations of the pendulum. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conci...ousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadership... in industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ladies and gents. The time has passed. The time has passed. Got to be a better way. I say to you, can't any longer, oh no, can't a...ny longer, play off black against old, young against poor. This country cannot house its houseless. Feed its foodless. They're demanding a government of the people. Peopled by people. Our faith. Our compassion. Our courage on the gridiron. The basic indifference that made this country great.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was a boy, I had a clock with a pendulum that could be lifted off. I found that the clock went very much faster without the... pendulum. If the main purpose of a clock is to go, the clock was the better for losing its pendulum. True, it could no longer tell the time, but that did not matter if one could teach oneself to be indifferent to the passage of time. The linguistic philosophy which cares only about language and not about the world, is like the boy who preferred the clock without the pendulum because, although it no longer told the time, it went more easily than before and at a more exhilarating pace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 o...n the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We fancy that this din of religion, literature, and philosophy, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through ...the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle; but if a man sleep soundly, he will forget it all between the sunset and dawn. It is the three-inch swing of a pendulum in a cupboard, which the great pulse of nature vibrates by and through each instant. When we lift our eyelids and open our ears, it disappears with smoke and rattle like the cars on a railroad. When I detect a beauty in any of the recesses of nature, I am reminded, by the serene and retired spirit in which it requires to be contemplated, of the inexpressible privacy of a life,--how silent and unambitious it is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »