Quotes About Recurrence

si las locuras se repiten en la familia, debe ser que existe una memoria genética que impide que se pierdan en el olvido.

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

I don't think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

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

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms.

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

newspapers do not have to have a screaming headline saying that nothing new is taking place (though the Bible was smart enough to declare ein chadash tachat hashemesh—" nothing new under the sun," providing the information that things just do recur).

repeated serial exposure.

the phrase kept repeating itself in my head.

It always returns to its initial state.

You're asked this a lot. Or maybe you're only asked it once, and the other times are just echoes.

visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation.

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over.

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

Despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

Life is full of circles