Quotes About Repetition

Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again, he said.

You're like one of those birds from the Summer Isles, aren't you? A pretty little talking bird, repeating all the pretty little words they taught you to recite.

and Hodor came lumbering in shouting "Hodor! Hodor! Hodor!

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Wer sich an die Vergangenheit nicht erinnert, ist dazu verdammt sie zu wiederholen.

Chi non conosce la storia è condannato a ripeterla.

That remains part of the problem—that we don't know the unpleasant aspects of American history...and therefore we don't learn the lesson those chapters have to teach us. So we repeat them over and over again.

They often keep turning the handle of the grinder after the coffee is ground.

The cliche is dead poetry.

It beats as it sweeps as it cleans.

The lack of repetition has not stopped scientists from speculating on the causes of the two most fundamental phenomena crucial to our existence: the big-bang creation of the universe and the origin of life from nonliving matter. Were these miracles? After all, they were both onetime events.

If you're on the merry-go-round, you have to go round.

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

There is nothing new under the sun.