Quotes About Cycles

The Revolution has a way of strengthening it self. It goes into cycles. This is another cycle where it rids itself of elements that have become inconsistent with the correct line.

His psychological and internal rhythm was not that of the Revolution but of the countryside, the tempo of the ranches, made up of cycles and fatality

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

How can a person brim over with life energy and big plans one moment and feel suicidal the next? She can cycle exactly that way because of the god-bug syndrome.

However, all companies engage in all four phases of work all the time.

Lesley said that my exes knew that past a certain point I'd lost interest, and that's why they always packed me in first. That's not the way I remember it, but Lesley swore she could have constructed a calendar based on my love life. A cyclical one, she said, like the Maya – counting down to disaster. Lesley could be surprisingly erudite sometimes.

And where it all came from was a mystery, I thought. Like the changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea.

This is a thing that I'm sure is obvious to everyone else but is never-endingly astonishing to me: that every change, every life, consists of nothing but a series of days.

I was born not just because I had conceived a notion to stay, but because in between my coming and going the great cycles of time had finally tightened around my neck. I prayed for laughter, a life without hunger. I was answered with paradoxes. It remains an enigma how it came to be that I was born smiling.

What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

Nature refuses to rest.

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.

Once every 12 years there is a unique opportunity to reinforce the bonds between Mexico and the United States, when our presidential election cycles coincide.

The moon is the accomplice of all things related to the heart.

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

You can only release music so often. You have albums and the whole cycles and everything like that, so covers are a great way to release music and new things before the next album comes out.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

I'd come to find the morning depressing, to know it would come again and again.

It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

Have you ever thought, " he said after a moment, "that perhaps...all of this could have happened before? That the people of the Time Before, no matter how weak we think them, that they were only making the mistakes of their ancesters and that we, in turn, are only making the same mistakes as them? Technology or no? That the time changes but people do not, and so we are never really moving forward, only around a bend? That the world only ever turns in circles. do you think that could be so?

I spent four hours last night on the Internet, reading accounts of women who suffer from their moods in ways that feel so familiar—they want to run away from their life half the month, and the other half, life feels fine.

The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low.