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Quotes About Repetition

The biggest mistake girls make is thinking the guy who hurt them once wont do it again.
~ Unknown
I hate seeing people go back to the same person who hurt them a million times.
~ Unknown
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.
~ Derwood Fincher
There are choices you have to make not just once but every time they come up.
~ Unknown
Life is so confusing, what we want we don't get, what we get we are not satisfied with, what we expect never happens and what we hate generally repeats!
~ Unknown
I loved this about him. No matter how many times I had asked, he answered as if it were the first time.
~ Madeline Miller
I loved this about him. No matter how many times I asked, he answered me as if it were the first time.
~ Madeline Miller
I loved this about him. No matter how many times I had asked, he answered me as if it were the first time
~ Madeline Miller
Quise despertarle para verle abrir los párpados, un espectáculo del que nunca me cansaba a pesar de haberlo visto miles de veces.
~ Madeline Miller
Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
~ Mae West
Performativity has to do with repetition, very often with the repetition of oppressive and painful gender norms to force them to resignify. This is not freedom, but a question of how to work the trap that one is inevitably in.
~ Maggie Nelson
one may have to undergo the same realizations, write the same notes in the margin, return to the same themes in one's work, relearn the same emotional truths, write the same book over and over again—not because one is stupid or obstinate or incapable of change, but because such revisitations constitute a life.
~ Maggie Nelson
Agnes cannot see the point of sweeping the floor. It just gets dirty again. Cooking food seems similarly pointless. She cooks it, they eat it and then, later on, they eat more.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Can you not just put the seat belt on?" I snap. I can't help it. I have a low threshold for repetitive electronic noises.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
How many times shall things be over, Father?
~ Mahmoud Darwish
It was an endless cycle--put one thing away, pick another up anew. You see what I'm saying? There's no evolution, no chance for growth.
~ Unknown
Na última noite de lua cheia, tomamos a Brenantina, é esse o nome do nosso barco, e partimos da enseada de Brenan, no porto de Brenan, na cidade de Brenan I; cruzamos ao romper do dia o canal de Brenan; passamos junto ao terceiro rochedo de Brenan, para além do farol de Brenan, ao meio-dia avistamos o atol de Brenan, no meio do mar de Brenan. Em Brenan, tudo é Brenan!
~ Unknown
The fact of the matter is that nothing is achieved in this world, particularly politically, other than with persistence, and persistence involves repetition and it involves argument and re-argument... The public interest in free speech is not just in truthful speech, in correct speech, in fair speech... The interest is in the debate. You see, every person who has ultimately changed the course of history has started off being unpopular.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
La història mai no es repeteix, però hom diria que tot sovint es complau a jugar amb els mateixos elements.
~ Unknown
Because the guerilla tactic of directly leveraging the activities of our competition worked so well, we repeated it and made it one of our marketing strategies.
~ Marc Benioff
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
~ Marcel Duchamp
I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination.
~ Marcel Duchamp
We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
~ Marcel Proust
Of these multiple impressions our memory is not capable of furnishing us with an immediate picture. But that picture gradually takes shape, and, with regard to works which we have heard more than once, we are like the schoolboy who has read several times over before going to sleep a lesson which he supposed himself not to know, and finds that he can repeat it by heart next morning.
~ Marcel Proust