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Quotes About Cycles

Morn,Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy handUnbarr'd the gates of light.
~ John Milton
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
~ John Steinbeck
Schools create the problems they seem to exist to solve.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die of euphoria.
~ John Templeton
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
~ John Updike
That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages which were before us.…" The
~ John V. Panella
They made a mess of 1914. They came a cropper in 1940. And now they're working up for it again.
~ John Wyndham
SIMIVISONIOS (May/Jun) "mid spring" "bright month" EQVOS (Jun/Jul) "horse month" "time of the herds" ELEMBIV[IOS] (Jul/Aug) "stag month" "claim time" (Lugnasad) AEDRINIOS (Aug/Sep) "hot month" (Aed is "fire") "arbitration time" CANTLOS (Sep/Oct) "song month" (harvest)
~ Ellen Evert Hopman
i believe in anything it would be nature - trees, clouds, rain - the life cycles that begin and end, season after season. that makes sense to me - nature as God.
~ Ellen Wittlinger
History repeats the old conceits
~ Elvis Costello
History, again, tells us of successive civilizations which have been born, have for a space thriven exceedingly, and have then miserably perished.
~ balfour arthur james iv
Prosperity often presages adversity.
~ ballou hosea iii
Tutti di solito sono convinti che le persone si separano perché una si è stancata dell'altra, per propria volontà o per volontà dell'altra persona. Ma non è così. I periodi finiscono, come cambiano le stagioni
~ Banana Yoshimoto
People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they've been with—that it's someone's decision, either yours or theirs. But this isn't really true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That's all there is to it.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides,
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides, of course, made that principle the justification of his work.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Ich bin kein Fan von Dingen, die zu Ende gehen. Deshalb drehe ich mich wahrscheinlich immer im Kreis.
~ Barry Jonsberg
Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion as it is for a five- or six-year-old expansion.
~ Edgar Fiedler
I think everything in life comes in threes: heartbreak and all that. You've got to do the full round in order to learn.
~ Lykke Li
Let me repeat what history teaches. History teaches.
~ Gertrude Stein
On the upswing of an economic cycle, workers, consumers, savers, investors, and entrepreneurs imagine a future that is brighter than the past. On the downswing, they imagine a future dimmer than the past.
~ Sanjaya Baru
I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
~ Ray Dalio
If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.
~ Newt Gingrich
We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way.
~ Willie Nelson