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Quotes About Repetition

The lessons of history are always forgotten unless permanent institutions are created to prevent a repetition.
~ Richard W. Sonnenfeldt
Sometimes it seemed that he'd said six or eight funny things in his life, and that what passed for his sense of humor would always depend on a skillful recycling of old material, over and over again.
~ Richard Yates
Good Lord. It really was déjà vu. Everyone wanted to talk to me in my sleep.
~ Richelle Mead
You sure have a high opinion of yourself, thinking it's going to happen again.
~ Richelle Mead
I has told you five or six times,' he said, 'and the third will be the last.
~ Roald Dahl
They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement.
~ Robert A. Caro
he thought, "My own R. B. Russell, Jr.—I was crazy with happiness." He said then what he was to repeat many times: "That is me living all over again.
~ Robert A. Caro
It may be easiest to see how this dynamics of repetition operates in our poem by working back from the last line to the first.
~ Robert Alter
And of course, this is the traditional theme in romantic poetry. I'm very science oriented in many ways. So much so that a lot of people who hate science dislike my books because they dislike the scientific emphasis. But, at the same time I am science oriented, I don't reject other modes of knowledge. When I find something repeated over and over, my thought is, if enough people have thought this over for many centuries, it's worth looking at no matter how wild it sounds.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
to the bullet clips the same way every
~ Robert Crais
I went to bed at twenty minutes after one that night, and still the networks were on the air, rehashing the landing, replaying the interviews, offering taped "live" coverage of something that was no more alive than a nightmare.
~ Robert Crais
I gave it to him from the beginning. I had told it so many times to so many cops I thought about making mimeographed copies and handing them out. When I told the part about Nobu Ishida, Jack Ellis said, "Holy shit.
~ Robert Crais
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
~ Robert Frost
Holding the curve of one position, counting an endless repetition.
~ Robert Frost
As these anecdotes illustrate, ritual refers to two kinds of acts: those things we do for the first time that, in fact, have been done by the human race again and again forever—and those patterns that we ourselves repeat again and again because they bring structure and meaning to our individual and collective lives.
~ Robert Fulghum
Even with skills that are primarily mental, such as computer programming or speaking a foreign language, it remains the case that we learn best through practice and repetition—the natural learning process.
~ Robert Greene
All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.
~ Kenneth Roberts
The beginning is the end is the beginning.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
For you, a thousand times over (Bareh tu hazar dafa)
~ Khaled Hosseini
for you ,thousand times over
~ Khaled Hosseini
Untukmu keseribu kalinya - Hassan si pengejar layang-layang berbibir sumbing
~ Khaled Hosseini
Por ti lo haría mil veces más.
~ Khaled Hosseini
For you a thousand times over. . . Dostet darum. I love you.
~ Khaled Hosseini
For you, a thousand times and over.
~ Khaled Hosseini