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Quotes About Cycle

A happy ending for today," corrected Ramona. Tomorrow they would begin all over again.
~ Beverly Cleary
When you look at a lake, you are looking at a collection of molecules that have been there on average for about a decade.
~ Bill Bryson
even a modest dilution of the ocean's salt content—from increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet, for instance—could disrupt the cycle disastrously. The
~ Bill Bryson
Very little arrives (those asteroid impacts are few and far between), and only a whisper of gas escapes. Everything else must be endlessly recycled: and so it is. The rain becomes the ocean and the ocean becomes the rain, the mountains are ground down to cover the sea-floors with silt, ancient silts rise up to make new mountains.
~ Bill Bryson
fascinating discussion of the…cyclical nature of history. Mankind is predictable. Governments mistreat people—their own people and others. They always have, and they always will. So the people react. There is action and reaction. This is how history has progressed and how it always will.
~ Bill Clinton
Mom says death is as natural as birth, and it's all part of the life cycle. She says we don't really understand it, but there are many things we don't understand, and we just have to do the best we can with the knowledge we have. I guess that makes sense.
~ Bill Watterson
Calvin: «Mom says death is as natural as birth, and it's all part of the life cycle. She says we don't really understand it, but there are many things we don't understand, and we just have to do the best we can with the knowledge we have. I guess that makes sense. ...But don't you go anywhere.» Hobbes: «Don't worry.»
~ Bill Watterson
Canadian entrepreneur John Warrillow, who has started five businesses and sold four of them. "I don't believe you are really an entrepreneur until you've exited, because you haven't completed the cycle. You're still standing on third base. It is not about starting. Anyone can start a business. Until you've actually sold one, you haven't touched all the bases.
~ Bo Burlingham
And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
These thoughts have no meaning. They are idiot mantras that exist in a prearranged cycle: I'm no good, I'm the Angel of Death, I'm stupid, I can't do anything. Thinking the first thought triggers the whole circuit. It's like the flu: first a sore throat, then, inevitably, a stuffy nose and a cough. Once, these thoughts must have had a meaning. They must have meant what they said. But repetition has blunted them. They have become background music, a Muzak medley of self-hatred themes.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Everything the power does, it does in a circle. –Lakota
~ Sylvia Browne
It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.
~ Sylvia Plath
Water will run by rule; the actual sun / Will scrupulously rise and set; / No little man lives in the exacting moon / And that is that, is that, is that.
~ Sylvia Plath
the incessant seethe of grasses
~ Sylvia Plath
Pensé que la letra minúscula al principio podía significar que nunca nada era en su comienzo realmente nuevo, con mayúscula, sino que todo fluía de lo anterior.
~ Sylvia Plath
Elk begin is tenslotte niets meer dan een vervolg. en het boek der gebeurtenissen ligt altijd open in het midden.
~ Szymborska, Wislawa
In May, anything seemed possible. If only I could learn to harness time itself. To make every month like May! Or, perhaps, to live backward in time, so that whenever the end of the month arrived, I could turn May right around and live it all over again.
~ T.A. Barron
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
~ T.S. Eliot
In my end is my beginning.
~ T.S. Eliot
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
~ T.S. Eliot
That corpse you planted last year in your garden, 'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
~ T.S. Eliot
And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end.
~ T.S. Eliot
And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now.
~ T.S. Eliot
To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
~ T.S. Eliot