logo

Quotes About Cycle

El sol se esconde para alzarse de nuevo, el día es engullido por la oscuridad de la noche para nacer de ella, tan puro como si nunca se hubiera apagado.
~ William Peter Blatty
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
~ William Ralph Inge
Gone hath the Spring, with all its flowers, and gone the Summer's pomp and show, and Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the Winter's
~ William Roetzheim
Light infantry operations often follow a cycle that can be divided into four steps: Dispersion, Orientation, Concentration, and Action (DOCA).
~ William S. Lind
... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.
~ William Shakespeare
Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
~ William Shakespeare
And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,And thereby hangs a tale.
~ William Shakespeare
The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood.
~ William Strauss
Authoritarian government isn't dead; it's just hibernating, poised to return in the Fourth Turning, rested and refreshed.
~ William Strauss
America, has fallen in the grip of the most portentous cycle in the history of mankind.
~ William Strauss
There is a mysterious cycle in human events," President Franklin Roosevelt observed in the depths of the Great Depression. "To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation has a rendezvous with destiny.
~ William Strauss
The next Fourth Turning—America's next rendezvous with destiny—will begin in roughly ten years and end in roughly thirty.
~ William Strauss
Etymologically, the word time comes from tide—an ancient reference to the lunar cycle still retained in such expressions as "yuletide" and "good tidings.
~ William Strauss
both the making and the unmaking were essential parts of life & necessary to keep the balance.
~ Winona LaDuke
Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
I don't know what's going on about this feeling you got me feeling'Cause everytime I try to leave I'm right back again.
~ Wiz Khalifa
Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
~ Wole Soyinka
Wieder ist ein Jahr vergangen: allmählich wird mir dieser ewigwährende Zyklus ein wenig leid, wozu verschiedene Faktoren, deren Urheber ich in diesem Zusammenhang, um mich keinen Unannehmlichkeiten, deren Folgen, die in Kauf zu nehmen ich, der ich gerne Frieden halte, gezwungen wäre, nicht absehbar wären, auszusetzen, nicht nennen möchte, beitragen.
~ Wolfgang Hildesheimer
The family has been sacrificed on the altar of economic and social success, and only the church can break that cycle, because it has found a better and more humane way to live: for God.
~ Wolfgang Simson
The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other.
~ Woody Allen
You can walk from the time of your youth till the time you grow old, and after that, till you become youthful again; and even after going through such cycle a thousand times, you may still find it difficult to reach the place you want to go. But when you percieve, by the resoluteness of your will, the Buddha-nature in all things, and when every one of your thoughts goes back to its very source in your memory, that will be the time you arrive at the Spirit Mountain.
~ Wu Cheng'en
Change is like a river: nothing is the same, even for an instant. Everything is continually moving through the six stages of change: about to come into being, beginning, expanding, approaching maximum potential, peaking, and finally, passing its peak and flowing into its new condition.
~ Wu Wei
My mom always said normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.
~ Wynonna Judd
Een bed ziet ons geboren worden en ziet ons doodgaan; het is een wisselend toneel waar het mensdom beurtelings boeiende drama's, lachwekkende kluchten en afschuwelijke treurspelen opvoer. - Het is een met bloemen versierde wieg; - het is de troon der liefde; - het is een graf.
~ Xavier de Maistre