Quotes About Repetition

The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), he thought and so you had better take what time there is and be very thankful for it.

Le mille volte che già lo aveva dimostrato non avevano importanza. Ora lo stava dimostrando di nuovo. Ogni volta era una volta nuova, e non pensava mai al passato, quando lo faceva.

When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

Bill was buying shoe-shines for Mike. Bootblacks opened the street door and each one Bill called over and started to work on Mike. This is the eleventh time my boots have been polished, Mike said. I say, Bill is an ass.

If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. It thrives on the mysterious, the novel, and the unexpected. Love is about having; desire is about wanting. An expression of longing, desire requires ongoing elusiveness. It is less concerned with where it has already been than passionate about where it can still go. But too often, as couples settle into the comforts of love, they cease to fan the flame of desire. They forget that fire needs air.

From his perspective, things are clear. "I want to rebuild with you, not rehash the same things over and over." I have explained to him that repetition helps restore coherence and is intrinsic to healing;

Ne m'envoie plus ouvrir la porte. Tu as vu que c'était inutile. L'expérience nous apprend que lorsqu'on entend sonner à la porte, c'est qu'il n'y a jamais personne.

Cel care scrie a doua oar? Werther este un farseur care ÅŸtie Werther pe dinafar? ÅŸi-l transcrie, din memorie. AÅŸa ÅŸi situaÅ£ia literar? a României: repet?, mai prost.

He would say ect. instead of ect., and thus instead of ect., instead of ect. and thus and so forth!

Az a fura érzésem támadt, hogy a háborúban mindig ugyanazt az embert kell újra meg újra meggyilkolnunk, míg végül rá fogok ébredni, hogy én magam vagyok az az ember!

I memorize my life so it's still there when i arrive again in the morning.

It wrote me "helpful" comments about each of the rooms I was going through, like, "This is the Room of Eternal Death. It's like the Room of Normal Death, but somewhat more repetitive." That sort of thing.

Roll. Tap. Tap. Tap

The world is falling to ruins," repeated Coën, nodding his head in feigned thoughtfulness. "How many times I've heard that." "Me, too," Lambert grimaced. "And it's not surprising – it's a popular saying of late.

Jag fick en smäll rätt i skallen. Titta vilken bula!« »Det är sjätte gången du visar den. Den ser inte intressantare ut än första gången.«

As a counterexample, consider the case of the developer who claims ten years of experience, but in reality it was one year of experience repeated nine times. That doesn't count as experience.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

If there's an area in your life where you tell yourself, "I know this is wrong, but I'm going to do it anyway, and probably repeat it," Solomon would answer, "In that area of your life, you're a fool." And

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

La Historia y la morcilla de mi tierra: se hacen las dos con sangre, se repiten.

we do not understand history, are we not bound to repeat the mistakes our fathers made?" "Some would say we will make those mistakes in any case," I answered, "for the same passions that motivated our fathers motivate us, and young people

You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.