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Yet conquering distance and gaining assurances that we are needed aren't exercises to be performed only once; they have to be repeated every time there's been a break -- a day away, a busy period, an evening at work -- for every interlude has the power once again to raise the question of whether or not we are still wanted.
~ Alain de Botton
Besides the three thousand dead, some fifty thousand were sold into slavery in the West Indies. Even when his rage subsided, Cromwell apparently did not repent of the atrocity; indeed, he called it "a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches." Similar scenes were repeated in other Irish cities.
~ Diane Moczar
He gestured at me. "That's Belly." "Belly?" she repeated. "Yup. She's my girlfriend." I think I choked out loud.
~ Jenny Han
Kejriwal's only mantra is to tell lies and talk forcefully and repeatedly, but Delhi cannot develop with telling lies.
~ Amit Shah
I fell," he repeated for the hundredth time. "But you didn't fall very far," Mary Sarojini now said. "No, I didn't fall very far," he agreed. "So what's all the fuss about?" the child inquired.
~ Aldous Huxley
But its absurd to let yourself get into a state like this. Simply absurd,' she repeated. 'And what about? A man - one man.
~ Aldous Huxley
One of the staples of discussion about basic aesthetic principles is that art has to exist for its own self and cannot be prostituted to advance any particular cause or point of view. Perfect nonsense, of course, but that doesn't keep it from being repeated ad nauseam.
~ Douglas Wilson
Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.
~ Vinoba Bhave
Hook's fingers always twitched when he spoke of Pan. It turned him dark and antsy, and his jaw clenched and unclenched. It was an old grudge, and Smee still didn't understand where it had begun. All he knew was that Hook was stuck on it: he sometimes repeated a conversation over and over again, that he imagined he was having with Peter.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
In its initial character, the gangster film is simply one example of the movies' constant tendency to create fixed dramatic patterns that can be repeated indefinitely with a reasonable expectation of profit.
~ Robert Warshow
family, tribe, religion, etc.17 Sadly, for many people the experience of trauma is chronic, that is—repeated and layered over time. This is often referred to as complex trauma. Complex trauma is especially problematic when it occurs within early family life, which is an
~ Robert Weiss
I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
~ Louise Erdrich
Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be repeated frequently to establish the basic motor pathways and basic strength.
~ Mark Rippetoe
If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
~ Seth Godin
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.
~ Henry James
The letter repeated Atia's earlier advice to return to Rome quickly and quietly.
~ Anthony Everitt
Oddly, recipes came with warnings that to eat reheated cabbage was fatal. "Twice cooked cabbage is death," an ancient adage popular in the Renaissance, referred both to that belief and to the tedium of listening to a comment repeated over and over.
~ Francine Segan
Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it's that patterns are repeated.
~ Frank Herbert
I love Texas and I have been to Texas many times.
~ Brian Quinn
That's the problem with precedents. Even the extreme ones tend to get repeated.
~ Ari Melber
We must always deal from strength and insist on verification of every agreement. In my meetings with the General Secretary I repeated several times a Russian proverb—"doveryai no proveryai"—"trust but verify."
~ Ronald Reagan
No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.
~ Samuel Johnson
It has been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continuously repeated.
~ Samuel Johnson
Sextus had little Aramaic, but he could hear the word 'Gehenna', the name of the refuse pit where the evil dead would be buried, being repeated over and over again.
~ John Blackburn