Quotes About Cycles

I think there's seasons of life. It oscillates.

It's all cyclical. Sometimes things just come in packs. At one point you had this collection of great choreographers where you would see eight bars and you would know definitely who did it.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.

As a result, periods of intense conflict tend to recur with a period of roughly two generations (40–60 years). These swings in the social mood may be termed "bi-generation cycles" because they involve alternating generations that are either prone to conflict, or not.

the dynamical pattern characterizing sociopolitical instability in historical societies (see, for example Figure 1.1) is more complex than just a sequence of secular integrative (relatively stable) and disintegrative (relatively unstable) phases. The jagged, "saw-toothed" nature of the trajectory suggests that there is another, shorter cycle superimposed on the longer multi-century oscillations.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

A quanto pare, tutta la storia umana non fa altro che ripeterci una cosa: è solo ciò che è stato.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

The sun can't shine forever.

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about.

At first it made me angry, but then it made me sad, and then it made me so grateful, and then it made me angry again, and I went through these feelings hundreds of times, stopping on each for only a moment and then moving to the next.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to often come.

Destiny prefers to repeat forms, and what happened once happens often. - A History of the Tango

La biblioteca es ilimitada y periódica.

The dead are buried to be born again, and the cycles of the plant world become models for the myths and rituals of mankind.

We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be revolutionary but not transformative.

Every season has its bad patches.

Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

I can dig out the old chestnut from George Santayana, that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," but it serves no purpose. It's a hopelessly optimistic quote. We are condemned to repeat the past whether we remember it or not. It is inevitable; just ask Nietzsche (eternal return) or Hegel (history repeats itself) or James McCourt (history repeats itself like hiccups).

Peaks cannot exist without valleys.

Mark Twain's quote: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.