Swing

Famous quotes containing the word swing:

    “Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “And then came the most devastating thought of all: I was one of them. I who used to swing upside down on a living horse, who always danced when mere walking would have done, so glad was I of life, so full of health. It was the most gruesome thought I had ever had in my life.”
    —Josephine Demott Robinson (1865–1948)

    “Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
    —William James (1842–1910)