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Quotes About Repetition

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
~ Edna O'Brien
A rose is a rose is a rose.
~ Gertrude Stein
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
~ Nicolas Boileau
And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.
~ Homer
What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
~ Alexander Pope
Past: Our cradle, not our prison, and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation; for continuation, not repetition.
~ Israel Zangwill
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
The definition of insanity is conservatives voting Republican over and over again and expecting different results.
~ Internet meme, c. 2014
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results means you're either insane or are making a New Year's resolution.
~ @thedeadauthor, 2015
Never can that be told, for those who saw and lived through it have lost the gift of words and those who are dead can tell no tales. Those were things which are not told, but forgotten. Fore where they not forgotten, how could they ever be repeated?
~ Ivo Andri?
Their recollections were inexhaustible and they repeated them continually, amplified by memory and repetition; they looked into one another's eyes, sclerotic and with yellowing whites, and saw there what the younger men could not even suspect.
~ Ivo Andri?
Life is full of circles
~ J.D. Robb
What do you mean SOS?" "Same old shit, Dickie. It's always SOS with you.
~ J.D. Robb
Maybe if they played those poppy, jingling Christmas songs on an endless loop in the tank it would be enough.
~ J.D. Robb
For the price of the download or hard copy, anyone can own the book and read it countless times.
~ J.D. Robb
me refiero al mundo, al ancho mundo. Pues eso es el mundo desde cierta perspectiva: una prisión en la que te vas deteriorando, te encorvas, padeces incontinencia, mueres y luego (si crees en ciertas historias en las que yo no creo) te despiertas en alguna playa desconocida donde tienes que repetir otra vez toda la función.
~ J.M. Coetzee
la razón no es más que una enorme tautología.
~ J.M. Coetzee
That was the thing about life. Habit and routine made things feel permanent, but that was all an illusion based on the very flimsy foundation of repetition. Change and chaos was a far better bet to put your faith in. At least you would never be surprised when things went tits up.
~ J.R. Ward
We find ways of repeating things until we get them right. But that can be dangerous. Especially if we're trying to fix things we never should have owned in the first place.
~ J.R. Ward
Habit and routine made things feel permanent, but that was all an illusion based on the very flimsy foundation of repetition. Change and chaos was a far better bet to put your faith in.
~ J.R. Ward
I love you. I hope you can get used to me saying that. A lot.
~ Jaci Burton
As Vladimir Lenin once reportedly said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Although Obama did not drink deeply at this well, he drank deeply enough to be intoxicated with its spirit.
~ Jack Cashill
The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
~ Jack Kerouac
Mike Jones, Ying Yang Twins, then a little later, Wiz Khalifa and Meek Mill, too. It was the repetitive stuff with Mike Jones when he would give out his number, and I also like his style. Back then, actually, I still think du-rags, grillz, and stuff like that are cool.
~ Lil Uzi Vert