Quotes About Repetition

A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit--then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too.

We've heard the content of our mental formations so many times we're sick of them.

But she's reading the email over and over again and playing Adele and Amy Winehouse," Paige reveals. Adele and Amy Winehouse? Oh no. We'd better keep an eye on her," I say grimly.

That was the problem with snide comments; they invariably lost all their punch on repetition. Besides, when facing impending death, what did the odd witticism matter?

We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years.

We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years. Another review of map skills, one week of Native Americans, Christopher Columbus in time for Columbus Day, the Pilgrims in time for Thanksgiving. Every year they say we're going to get right up to the present, but we always get stuck in the Industrial Revolution. We got to World War 1 in seventh grade - who knew there had been a war with the whole world? We need more holidays to keep the social studies teachers on track.

I wake up on time for four days in a row, get on the bus four days in a row, ride home after school. I want to scream. I think I'll need to take a day off every once in a while.

So where does the human error come in? Well, sometimes I buy a stamp and mount it in my album without troubling to log it in my catalog. And later I find it offered on somebody else's list, and see that it's one I don't have, and buy it again. And then when I go to mount the new copy in my album, there's one already there.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

I wanted moments like this to last forever. If it couldn't, I wanted to play it on repeat so I wouldn't forget the details of every second.

It's not dystopia to think history will repeat itself.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

Can't repeat the past? We do it every day. We build a life, or try to, of pleasures and duties that will become routine, so that every day will be the same day, or nearly so, the day of our life, Randall Jarrell called it.

Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.

U re u re na-nam Gi re gi re na-nam Mu re mu re na-nam

And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections.

It only takes two facing mirrors to construct a labyrinth. Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights

The man who buries his house in the sand and digs it up again, each evening, learns to put it together quickly and just as quickly to take it apart. My parents sleep like children in the dark. I am too far to hear them breathe