Quotes About Repetition

Tell a story often enough and it becomes the truth.

When two-year-olds are thwarted (like every three minutes), they have intense anger and temper tantrums. At this stage the child needs to take possession of things in order to test them by purposeful repetition.

Five reasonably intelligent men sat in a stupor of impotence, repeating wearily the essentials of a problem which they could not solve.

Oh, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care! I don't care what happens, as long as everything doesn't go on repeating itself!

It is not often given to human beings to be able to treat a fragment of time that can never return again with the intense and ritualistic concentration appropriate to a moment irretrievably slipping away into an everlasting impossibility of repetition.

I drove for miles and miles and wound up at your door. I've had you so many times but somehow I want more.

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

That awkward moment when you're telling your friend something hilarious and they are just like, 'You already told me...'

The consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell your friends over and over again that you love them.

Once you've been through the same sh.. over and over again, you don't get your hopes up anymore. You already know what you're gonna expect.

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again

Being annoyed by commercials that come on like 3 times in a row.

That annoying moment when the song you hate is stuck in your head.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.

...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.

We do pretty much the same set list every night, and the show's down to certain cues because we have video and all this production and lights and everything going on.

The music I make, it's so hard. I listen to it 100,000 times before it even drops.