Quotes About Cycles

Chi non conosce la storia è condannato a ripeterla.

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

Pyramidal phenomena occurred in cycles, without it ever being possible to determine precisely the timing of their appearance: for no one has ever been able to establish with certainty whather what happens is the future, or just the past moving backwards, like a crab. People ended up acccepting that maybe neither the past nor the future were what they were thought to be, since both could reverse their direction of travel, like trams at a terminus (p.119).

Ali nevolje ne traju vje?no (i to im je zajedni?ko sa radostima) nego prolaze ili se bar smjenjuju i gube u zaboravu.

Eve didn't get it, just didn't get it. Who the hell decided everyone was supposed to go mad with romance and gift buying on some random day in February? Hadn't everybody just gone mad with good cheer and gift buying in December? ....... When would it end?

How can I accept that disaster has overtaken my life when the world continues to move so tranquilly through its cycles?

The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.

I've always had down days and up days - and by down I mean unable to get out of bed, by up I mean being hyper and elated.

History is the same story with different costumes.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

History repeats itself.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

Leave her to sleep, sliding away forever down her secret underground river, while breathing seasons spun dandelion seeds and moon phases and snowflakes above her head.

get to a point where we've observed our mind long enough to become more aware of its repetitive cycles, playing the same tapes over and over, in endless variations.

time is the quintessential mother.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it. —Sir Charles Petrie, THE VICTORIANS

some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc. How