Quotes About Recurrence

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Everything repeats itself. There ain't but so many notes on the scale, there ain't but so many chord changes, for real, and there ain't but so many beats. So things come back to you a different way. Don't matter what they call it.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

The Strategy of Scheduling, of setting a specific, regular time for an activity to recur, is one of the most familiar and powerful strategies of habit formation

Sometimes I feel that what we do and what we say is just a repetition, that's it's all happened before,' I said. 'Déjà vu,' he said, his voice flat. 'No, not that, not identical - vaguely the same, like we're trapped in a pattern or an idea that we can't give up, that leads us by the nose...

I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on 'Rescue Me'. And I'd recurred for nine episodes on 'The Practice'. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

Por lo menos su vida no fue otra cosa que la repetición de actos tan idénticos, tan sabidos de memoria, que se hacían imposibles de comprender.

Cuando has visto tanto, te das cuenta de que todos los finales son el mismo repetido

Por caminos muy distintos he tenido siempre los mismos recuerdos. De día y de noche ellos corren por mi memoria como los ríos de un país. Algunas veces yo los contemplo; y otras veces ellos se desbordan. p. 234

Por caminos muy distintos he tenido siempre los mismo recuerdos. De día y de noche ellos corren por mi memoria como los ríos de una país. Algunas veces yo los contemplo; y otras veces ellos se desbordan.

La historia no se repite, pero a veces se parodia a sí misma

La felicidad es pasajera, la desdicha recurrente.

But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don't always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don't always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.

So, here we are, back where we were before. And before that. And before that.

If you think of someone enough, you're sure to meet them again.

It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me.

Unless you find the fundamental cause and treat that, the same problem will surface later on in a different form.

Repetition breeds reiteration.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

The past had a way of coming back up out of the ground. Always right below your feet.