Quotes About Repetition

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. . .and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.

Just because a blindfolded drunk can cross Westheimer Road unharmed in the middle of traffic once doesn't mean he can do it again, Hirs said.

Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Primer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Segundo acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Tercer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. ¿Cómo se llama la obra? "La marsellesa".

You just got here, sir." "I know but how do we get out?" "Same way you came in. It's a dead-end road." "So we see the same scenery twice?" "It looks better going out.

Often we are persuaded by authority and repetition rather than by evidence and reality.

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.

The dog is turned to his own vomit again.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

English translation of the Koran. I wonder how, with such a repetitive farrago of platitudes, expressing so self-evident a theology and an ethic so puerile, Islam can have spread as it has.

Apart from the massacres, deaths and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst thing about the system was the official lying: that is to say the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, by repetition, assent or failure to contradict. I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate.

To consider water on any scale was to confront a boundless repetition of small events. There were the tiny wonders: rain drops, snow crystals, grains of frost aligned on a blade of grass; and there were the wonders so immense it seemed impossible to get his mind around them: global wind, oceanic currents, storms that broke like waves over whole mountain ranges. p 46

Studying ice crystals as a graduate student, he eventually found the basic design (equilateral, equiangled hexagon) so icily repeated, so unerringly conforming, that he couldn't help but shudder: Beneath the splendor--the filigreed blossoms, the microscopic stars--was a ghastly inevitability; crystals could not escape their embedded blueprints any more than humans could. Everything hewed to a rigidity of pattern, the certainty of death.

In the infinite permutation of an ice crystal, everything repeats itself, but, really, from another point of view, nothing repeats itself.

It is not so fun being asked how tall you are all the time.