Quotes About Repetition

For you, a thousand times over - The Kite Runner

Per tu ho faria mil vegades més.

for you a thousand times over

for you a thousand time ever.

It would be the dripping faucet at the back of her mind.

I think she suspects something, though. We've had cherry pie for dessert five nights in a row." His voice drawled, and my smile deepened.

If you do it once, it's a mistake. If you do it twice, it's not a mistake anymore.

Mistakes can be fixed, but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

Of course there was no such thing as a true repetition of anything; ever since the pre-Socratics that had been clear, Heraclitus and his un-twice-steppable river and so on. So habits were not truly iterative, but pseudoiterative. The pattern of the day might be the same, in other words, but the individual events fulfilling the pattern were always a little bit different. Thus there was both pattern and surprise

You hope, the stayers replied. You will have to trust in the kindness of strangers. They did not recognize this as a quotation. In general they were not aware that much of what they said had been said before, and was even in the public record as such. It was as if there were only so many things humans could say, and over the course of history, people had therefore said them already, and would say them again, but not often remember this fact.

Round and round and round we go,  And where we stop, nobody knows.

da var det skjænk og bakervarer for hver som kom ind i hans krambod, og somme hadde riktignok ingen skam, men kom to ganger og fik skjænk.

Meaningless sex is like eating the worm at the bottom of a tequila bottle: fun in the moment, but not something you'd want to repeat over and over." —MELANTHE OF THE DEIE SORCERI, QUEEN OF PERSUASION

He'd told me those slashing marks were our story, to remind him never to trust me. I'd told him history didn't have to repeat itself.

L'homme, guidé par le sens de la beauté, transforme l'évènement fortuit (une musique de Beethoven, une mort dans une gare) en un motif qui va ensuite s'inscrire dans la partition de sa vie. Il y reviendra, le répétera, le modifiera, le développera comme fait le compositeur avec le thème de sa sonate.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?

I work as much as fifty to sixty hours at a stretch," Kusama wrote in a 1961 article of her entrancing, utterly consuming creative process. "I gradually feel myself under the spell of the accumulation and repetition in my nets which expand beyond myself, and over the limited space of canvas, covering the floor, desks and everywhere.

Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.

Everything will again be simple, regular and limited like a circle.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.