Quotes About Recurrence

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

There are some people who the same things happen to them again and again. They never learn.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Once is interesting. Twice is happenstance. Three times, it's a game. Patterns are things that happen that you really couldn't prove in court, but damn it, you know they happen!

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

Hauntings only repeat what occurred once upon a time.

Of course. We go around and around in this world, and here we go again.

Sometimes, she said, it seems to me there's just these certain types of people that come around and around in our lives, know what I mean? Easy types and hard types; we run into them over and over.

Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?

Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

Analysing complexity Analysis of complex systems almost always turns on finding recurring patterns in the system's ever-changing configurations. The game of chess provides a useful analogy: a dozen rules determine

Despite the recurrence of events in which the debris-basin system fails in its struggle to contain the falling mountains, people who live on the front line are for the most part calm and complacent. It appears that no amount of front-page or prime-time attention will ever prevent such people from masking out the problem.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself—in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience

There are certain sayings that ring in your head long enough to become a chant!

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any programme our fear has sketched out. Fear is almost always haunted by terrible dramatic scenes, which recur in spite of the best-argued probabilities against them.

History, we know, is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.