Quotes About Cycles

Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears In the weak circles of increasing years; And his short tumults of themselves compose, While flowing Time above his head does close.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began - in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 - employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak.

Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

La única lección que nos enseña la historia es que nunca aprendemos de ella.1

Why were you born when the snow was falling? You should have come to the cuckoo's calling, Or when grapes are green in the cluster, Or, at least, when lithe swallows muster For their far off flying From summer dying. Why did you die when the lambs were cropping? You should have died at the apples' dropping, When the grasshopper comes to trouble, And the wheat-fields are sodden stubble, And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

poetry cannot speak without remembering the turns of the sun and moon, and the rhythm of the ocean, and the recurrence of human generations, the returning waves of life and death.

capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all start up again in a million years when the planet has all its messes cleaned up. Then, finally, one of these civilizations, say five billion years from now, will last because people treat each other the way they ought to.

Priroda nikada ne krši svoje zakone.

Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?

It has its ups and downs!

Sins are like grapes; they come in bunches.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth's seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme