Top 54 Can't Repeat The Past Quotes
#1. 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.
Adam Gopnik
#3. I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#4. Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.
Harvey MacKay
#5. If we humans can so easily wash the blood of our fellow humans off our hands, then what hope is there for sparing our future generations from a repeat of the genocides and mass killings of the past?
Thomas Buergenthal
#6. You are a sweet man."
-"God, there it is." He flopped back on the bed, as if shot through the heart. "Repeat that to anyone, and I will have you brought up on charges of slander."
"I wouldn't dream of telling a soul.
Tessa Dare
#7. It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
#8. Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.
David Ogilvy
#9. You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
Jacques Pepin
#10. But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
Barack Obama
#11. Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.
Dan Abnett
#12. Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
Errol Morris
#13. Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
Lois Wyse
#14. When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it.
R.C. Sproul
#15. Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat - what to do in order to make what we are waiting for happen.
Andre Breton
#16. Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#18. We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten ... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites
Sunday Adelaja
#20. The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
A.R. Rahman
#21. I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.
Benjamin Clementine
#22. Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.
Heinz Fischer
#23. Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#24. You can't undo the past ... but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willis
#25. It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.
Steve Berry
#26. Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same.
Tambre Bryant
#27. It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest.
Lawrence Lessig
#28. Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.
Vikrmn
#30. Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
Brian Eno
#31. Making a mistake isn't bad; what's bad is refusing to learn from it so you don't repeat it.
Colleen Houck
#32. often thought that the simple fact, the mechanical fact, is no closer to the truth than a vague feeling, rumor, vision. Why repeat the facts - they cover up our feelings.
Svetlana Alexievich
#33. I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.
Martin Landau
#34. I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.
Matthew McConaughey
#35. Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
Winston Churchill
#36. If you don't look back to self reflect, you're only going to repeat the same mistakes. Those mistakes will continue to show up in your dating lifescape because you haven't learned the lesson they were supposed to teach you.
Jaha Knight
#37. People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
Keith Henson
#38. I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves.
Justin Broadrick
#39. There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.
Brian May
#40. A disciple follows Jesus, invites others to follow him, and then trains them how to repeat the process.
Brandon D. Smith
#41. The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.
Rebecca Goldstein
#43. There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.
Gail Carriger
#44. If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
Saul Bellow
#46. When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#47. Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
Ursula Parrott
#49. When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.
Paulo Coelho
#50. I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it. I don't need pathetic dancing monkey
scenarios to repeat to my friends, I am content with letting him be himself.
I don't know why women find that so hard.
Gillian Flynn
#51. Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
Brian Tracy
#52. There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.
Isak Dinesen
#53. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#54. What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.
Alan Furst
