Quotes About Repetition

we are gripped with obsessions and are oblivious to everything going on around us as thoughts continually repeat themselves.

ANY NATION THAT FAILS TO LEARN FROM HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT THAT HISTORY.

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I

All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered.

killed you three times already.

As Talleyrand memorably said, 'The truth is whatever is plausibly asserted and confidently maintained.' If I tell you something three times you will believe it, said the Bellman, and usually we do.

When we see a later author present a repetition of an earlier pattern, which was informed by a promise, as readers we begin to sense that we are dealing with a sequence of events (a type, pattern, or schema) that the biblical authors saw to be significant, even if they were puzzled by it

So many times Czgowchwz, or Czgowchwz to this or that root or powder, was still Czgowchwz, as is number one; and Czgowchwz over Czgowchwz, like Czgowchwz in an infinite hall of electric Czgowchwz mirrors, was but Czgowchwz.

Again last night I dreamed the dream called Laundry.

Dad reckons if you have a great time in one place, then that's a good reason for never going back. Nothing will ever measure up to the first time. He laughs at people who go to the same place every year, same beach, same house, same things to do.

When I speak as the genius I am, I speak these words for the first time. To repeat words is to speak them as though another were saying them, in which case I am not saying them. To be the genius of my speech is to be the origin of my words, to say them for the first, and last, time. Even to repeat my own words is to say them as though I were another person in another time and place.

Deviancy, however, is the very essence of culture. Whoever merely follows the script, merely repeating the past, is culturally impoverished.

How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

rapid-fire monotone.

Because—the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.

Over and over, I kept thinking I've got to go home and then, for the millionth time, I can't.

My love was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. There was an instability in it, a sickness.

Well. On which aspect of our ill-advised doings are we about to lecture each other? I have very little to say. As I recall, I exhausted the matter on several other occasions.

I echo like a mynah, that's why.

Pray silence for the soloist. But let him be soon over, that we may hear the great striding fugue again.

It will come back to you," cried the Rector, feverishly. "It will come back. Half an hour with the handbells——

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.