Quotes About Repetition

Punishers don't win. Thus, when repetition is taken into account, punishment by people who like to take the law into their own hands is ineffective.

One of the best things about road-tripping with monks is that monks are used to repeating chants over and over and over, so they really don't mind songs like 'Ninety-nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall' or 'The Song That Never Ends.

Who do we seek, my spies? Again and again, I announce to the world: I. M. Realdom! I. M. Realdom! I. M. Realdom! I cannot say it too often! Do you have that?

Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.

This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible.

At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true. However often I had used an herb before, each cutting had its own character. One rose would give up its secrets if it were ground, another must be pressed, a third steeped. Each spell was a montain to be climbed anew. All I could carry with me from last time was the knowedge that it could be done.

At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true. However often I had used an herb before, each cutting had its own character. One rose would give up its secrets if it were ground, another must be pressed, a third steeped. Each spell was a mountain to be climbed anew. All I could carry with me from last time was the knowledge that it could be done.

I wanted to wake him and see those eyes open. A thousand thousand times I had seen it, but I never tired of it.

There is this, too." His hand was ceaseless now. "I know I have told you of this." I closed my eyes. "Tell me again," I said.

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world. All we can do is go round and round in a squirrel cage.

They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

He had blown the trumpet for so long that no one heard it anymore.

you start repeating what's already been said, as lawyers have a natural inclination to

Repeat something enough and folks will start to believe it. Mr. Mount had always taken the position that the presumption of innocence is a joke nowadays.

now he had done it again.

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.

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.

Treading water, a little dog-paddling—it's a lot like writing a novel, Clark," the dump reader told his former student. "It feels like you're going a long way, because it's a lot of work, but you're basically covering old ground—you're hanging out in familiar territory.

It sounds the same to me, Kid," Molly said. "The new lift takes you to the same old place. It's the same trip, just a faster ride—it's no more or less depressing than it ever was," she added.

um auditório já cansado de fazer ecoar discursos que ninguém ouvia.

I read that part over and over again, until I felt I had the pronunciation right. There was quite a good pencil drawing of a phoenix, that mythical bird that was supposed

To win the lottery once may be evidence of luck or skill; to win it repeatedly is evidence of skill.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.