#swings

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. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#battle #between #checks #culture #freedom

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#happy

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#going #i #know #need #swing

George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice and Marit, and, last of all, hatred of Dr. Gharn, who had started it all. But the hatred swayed to pity. Then to hopelessness. Then back to anger. Every once in a great while, he felt a moment of peace, usually when he caught a glimpse of Beatrice and Marit together. He loved them both in different ways. But that could not be. He turned away, and the cycle began again. ↗

— Mette Ivie Harrison

#conflicting-emotions #despair #emotional-upheaval #hate #love

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#easily #frets #gravitation #his #into

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#being #child #does #dollar #finding

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

#come #country #everyone #far #long

Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings. ↗

— Josh Silver

#mood #mood swings #pretty #serious #swings

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that? ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#around #buying #cartoon #day #george

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#mood-swings #psychiatry #funny