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"Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I’ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?"
"Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness."
"American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth."
"I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second."
"The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear."
"EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out."
"People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything."
"I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view."
"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 it to the right that there is a fear that it's never going to swing back."
"It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol."
"The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive."
"It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed."
"The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time."
"You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts."
"It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat."
"What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch."
"Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it."
"Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own."
"I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is."
"Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it."
