Quotes About Recurrence

He was particularly disgruntled to see what he had taken for a bundle of old rags on the tracks outside was a human body. He did not say "Not again" (what he said was "Shit on this"), but "Not again" was what he meant.

As a result, periods of intense conflict tend to recur with a period of roughly two generations (40–60 years). These swings in the social mood may be termed "bi-generation cycles" because they involve alternating generations that are either prone to conflict, or not.

That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

recurring impossibility, a 'return of the repressed'.

experience I was keen to repeat. Meanwhile, Kaltenbrunner

On TV, it is more efficient to use voice-over people because it is really hard to get celebrity voices to recur in a series.

I hate sequels.

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Hospital" turned out to represent a punctuated tedium, the recurrence of blood pressure and temperature checks, the placement and emptying of bedpans and painful switching of IV lines from the crook of one elbow to the other, and the switching of nurses as day and night were destroyed and replaced with tripartite shifts.

It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of my death, that it will happen again an infinite number of times, that we will meet, marry, have our children, succeed in the ways we have, fail in the ways we have, all exactly the same, always unable to change a thing. I am again at the bottom of an unstoppable wheel, and when I feel my eyes close for death, as they have and will a thousand times, I awake.

las palabras últimas fueron ut nihil non iisdem verbis redderetur auditum.

Destiny prefers to repeat forms, and what happened once happens often. - A History of the Tango

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

I can dig out the old chestnut from George Santayana, that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," but it serves no purpose. It's a hopelessly optimistic quote. We are condemned to repeat the past whether we remember it or not. It is inevitable; just ask Nietzsche (eternal return) or Hegel (history repeats itself) or James McCourt (history repeats itself like hiccups).

We are condemned to repeat the past whether we remember it or not. It is inevitable; just ask Nietzsche (eternal return) or Hegel (history repeats itself) or James McCourt (history repeats itself like hiccups). Beirutis

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

There's nothing new under the sun. We talk about the same things all the time on air.

Our lives are Mobius strips, misery and wonder simultaneously. Our destinies are infinite, and infinitely recurring.

Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.

From the perspective of noise reduction, a singular decision is a recurrent decision that happens only once.

Systematic errors are known as biases, and they recur predictably in particular circumstances.