Quotes About Cycles

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

The earth's history over the past several million years is that for every 100,000 years, we go through a dramatic climatic cycle where we get 90,000 years of ice age and 10,000 years of a warm period. I think people today just have the expectation that we deserve a perfectly benign climate forever.

I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.

A day of Brahma's has 14 Indras, his life 54,000 Indras. One day of Vishnu is the lifetime of Brahma. One day of Siva is the lifetime of Vishnu…

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that's insanity.

I think life is a chain of events.

Animals are good for teaching children about the circle of life.

Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.

And then there is the extravagance of places where summer hardly has darkness and winter hardly has light, as though the light were gambled away or drunk down all in one long exhilarated draught that brings on the long darkness.

Once the moon gets to be full somebody - some man or other - goes up every day and slices bits of one side until there isn't any more,and then after a bit a new one grows. Men do that with all sorts of things, actually - rose bushes for instance.... The man who slices the bits off brings them down here and then they're used for making those lights on the cars. Clever isn't it... They only last about one night, I should think, because you hardly ever see them shining by day.

The point about recurrent reproduction life cycles, and hence, by implication, the point about organisms, is that they allow repeated returns to the drawing board during evolutionary time.

Days and months are travellers of eternity. So too the years that pass by

have we ever heard of any one dynasty ruling endlessly, beyond all bounds of time? Never! Even the illustrious Ishvaku clan, which boasted Lord Rama, died out. The Rettai Mandalathar rose to bring the Chalukya reign to an end. Empires and dynasties do have a habit of rising to tremendous greatness, and crashing to hollow depths; entirely natural, don't you think? There are kingdoms that have ruled for centuries, and disappeared without a trace.

Hegel dice en alguna parte que todos los grandes hechos y personajes de la historia universal aparecen, como si dijéramos, dos veces. Pero se olvidó de agregar: una vez como tragedia y la otra como farsa.

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.