Quotes About Cycles

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

Time has witnessed events even before it's own birth without energy.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

See money – currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.

A lunatic is indeed properly one that hath lucid intervals; sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not, and that frequently depending upon the change of the moon.

market history shows that when there's economic blue sky, future returns are low, and when the economy is on the skids, future returns are high;

A quote often misattributed to Mark Twain has it that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Those who ignore financial history are condemned to repeat it.

Male desire is pretty steady and only dips in response to some invisible awareness of their partner's menstrual cycles. Studies in strip clubs have found that dancers' tips plunge 45 percent while they are menstruating.

Innovation ensured that each cycle normally reached a higher level than its predecessor, but innovation was normally too slow to prevent an eventual collapse within each cycle, as populations outstripped available resources.

It's interesting about diseases, how they peak and tank.

Allmovements are accomplished in six stages, and the seventh brings return.... Seven is the number of young light. and it arises whensix, the number of the great darkness, is increased by one. THE I CHING1

History is cyclical in nature, the evidence shows us. What is today, was before. What was yesterday, will be tomorrow. We need to learn from our mistakes, so that instead of travelling endlessly in a repetitious cycle, we move in an upward spiral toward perfection and utopia.

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

In season, all is good.

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.