Quotes About Cycle

It is awful to contemplate this sort of life, in which one would always be forced into motion by a variety of mysterious and powerful forces, never staying anywhere for long, never finding a safe place one could call home, never able to turn the tables for very long, just as the Baudelaire orphans found it awful to contemplate their own lives [...] just when it seemed they might break out of the tedious cycle of unfortunate events in which they found themselves trapped.

One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end

People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.

Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.

An agon, or contest, or wrangling, there will probably be, because Summer contends with Winter, Life with Death, the New Year with the Old. A tragedy must be tragic, must have its pathos, because the Winter, the Old Year, must die.

The magical dromenon, the Carrying out of Winter, the Bringing in of Spring, is doomed to an inherent and deadly monotony.

Without recognizing the belief behind the behavior, some adults react to the behavior with some kind of punishment, such as blaming, shaming, or inflicting physical pain. This kind of response only confirms a student's belief that he or she doesn't belong, creating a vicious cycle that leads to more misbehavior. In this cycle the student's deep need for belonging, contribution, and skills is not being addressed at all.

The death serves a purpose species-wise while it also serves the purposes of the individual, for no death comes unbidden.

And then it gets so hot that they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs. Mr. Landowsky

There is something very cyclical about the way fashion designers work. They work and work and work, the collection is finally shown, and after those 15 minutes, they must start over from the beginning. This is not unlike the way I work creating new dances.

I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws - some meaningful, some unproductive - the right yells 'slippery slope' and hides behind the Constitution.

Let's think about Mexican streets: they're unsafe because of violence, so people stay at home. Does that make streets more or less safe? Less safe! So streets become more desolate and unsafe, so we stay home more - which makes streets even more desolate and unsafe, and we stay home even more.

Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives.

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.

Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

When you hit someone back with understanding or love it stops the cycle of friction. Its not always easy to do, but when youre aware in the moment you have a choice to respond with love or hate. Its not rocket science.

We built something, we get feedback, we try to figure out what make sense out of the suggestions, and then we do something about it and then we listen some more." That is a great description of how Internet software is typically built today, with what is now called a "build-measure-learn" cycle, in which the users of a minimally useful service teach its creators what they want from them.

All water has been everywhere, Bekah. What flows from your faucet was once frozen inside a glacier, and squeezed by unimaginable pressures at the bottom of the deepest sea, and rippling in a lightless lake in a cavern no living thing has ever touched. Also, it has almost certainly been inside a dinosaur. All water is one water, and all water remembers the past.

Everything will eventually be dismantled into its constituent atoms and molecules, and continue to exist as the raw material that could ultimately be drawn into the orbit of another nascent star, and some new evolutionary cycle might commence, with some new intelligent civilisation. There is no way of knowing.

The rise of Hollywood and of the Zukor model is another definitive closing turn of the Cycle. In the course of a single decade, film went from one of the most open industries in the United States to one of the most controlled. The flip shows how abruptly industrial structure can change when the underlying commodity is information. For

An empire long united, must divide; an empire long divided, must unite. Thus it has ever been, and thus it will always be.