Quotes About Reiteration

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

I've been fascinated over the years by the way refrains work. Think, say, of the refrains in Yeats' ballads. Ideally, each time the refrain comes back in a poem, it is both the same and different. It works by counterpoint and reiteration. It accrues meaning.

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

Repetition is a convincing argument.

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Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Things repeat themselves.

Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.

For many years, Tass's life was like an echo.

It isn't wisdom to repeat platitudes." "It is wisdom to know which ones bear repeating.

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

I hoard and buy loads of the same things over and over - DVDs, clothes, trainers.

Repetition breeds reiteration.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

Pero yo te miro de frente porque no te juzgo. No te mato a ti sino a tus actos, al eco de tus actos, su resonar lejano en las costas griegas. Se habla ya tanto de ti que eres como una vasta nube de palabras, un juego de espejos, una reiteración de fábula inasible. Tal es al menos el lenguaje de mis retóricos.

Reiterating other people's hopes, dreams and fears. That's what politics is all about.

Collapse begins at this paradoxical point: the reiteration of a metanarrative of heroism and innocence ceases to be essential to sustain global normative structures at the moment its use becomes ubiquitous.

History repeating itself is history's oldest story.

People love to be told what they know already. It's not so much that what they say is wrong, though Ann Coulter does seem to be completely crazy.

Every story, the moment it's written down, will be reread," she said. "And every rereading will be a reinterpretation. In that sense, there is not an original story and there is not an original message.

What tended to happen, to Colin and Mary at least, was that subjects were not explored so much as defensively reiterated, or forced into elaborate irrelevancies, and suffused with irritability.