Quotes About Cycles

But, ma'am, you are only on your first life and I have had six.

the 1st of January on a leap year falls on a Sunday, the months of January, April and July will each have a Friday the 13th. In the 20th century, this happened in 1928, 1956 and 1984. In the 21st century, this will happen four times in 2012, 2040, 2068, 2096.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.

Like all businesses ACID has its ups and downs. There are actually seasons when business will pick up such as Christmas time and carnival time. There are other times when business will run very slow.

And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.

History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes

I'm all soils west when the Earth lets go. I'm a thousand Julys.

Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the infinite variety of nature.

Nada hay nuevo bajo el sol... Cada acto o cada cosa tiene un precedente en el pasado.

All human livings in industrial society are ultimately based on agricultural production and mineral extraction. One of the ways these processes are transferred upward and outward is through endless cycles of buying and selling. Which is to say that one cannot live in this kind of world without being involved in these cycles, nearly or remotely.

The Sabbats are the eight points at which we connect the inner and the outer cycles: the interstices where the seasonal, the celestial, the communal, the creative, and the personal all meet.

I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday.

Endings are hard, but important. You have to have an end, so you can have another beginning.

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

In related ways, 24/7 is inseparable from environmental catastrophe in its declaration of permanent expenditure, of endless wastefulness for its sustenance, in its terminal disruption of the cycles and seasons on which ecological integrity depends.

We forget that winter will come again. We forget that nothing really endures and that, like the flowers that die at the end of the growing season, we'll join them in the cold ground.

the one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues

So, naturalists observe, a fleaHath smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em;And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet, in his kind,Is bit by him that comes behind.

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself