Quotes About Past Repeating

#1. I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties.

Marquis De Lafayette

#2. History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

William H. Hastie

#3. You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

Jonathan R. Miller

#4. The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

T. S. Eliot

#5. The challenge is to keep learning and creating higher-order solutions rather than merely repeating the failed journeys of the past.

Kevan Hall

#6. We can't change the past. But we will keep repeating it if we continue to live by the beliefs and agreements set in response to past events.

Julie Tallard Johnson

#7. I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

George Coyne

#8. Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.

Jordan Maxwell

#9. Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.

Richard Neville

#10. Powerful Leaders are intentional about not repeating history by always being open to the unprecedented; what's in your future?

Michael Walker

#11. Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.

Alexandra Katehakis

#12. Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.

Brian L. Weiss

#13. All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

Roland Barthes

#14. History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Will Durant

#15. The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.

J. Christopher Herold

#16. I think it's important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over.

G-Eazy

#17. I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.

Matthew McConaughey

#18. There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.

P.D. Ouspensky

#19. Only a complete asshole would keep repeating the same old mistakes and blaming it on something else. Hell, we have all had it hard. It may not seem like it,

Sister Souljah

#20. It was a revolving door that kept going in circles. I got to the point where I thought, "Man, none of this is doing it." but I'd keep repeating the same actions. I'd go win another contest, open another company, invent a new maneuver.

Christian Hosoi

#21. You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.

Jenny Hubbard

#22. Why would a young man like you be interested in history?"
"So I can avoid repeating it."
"Then stay away from men who talk about the fatherland," he said. "That's my advice.

Ben Aaronovitch

#23. Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

Mason Cooley

#24. President Obama recently said that his day is all about politics, so in the mornings he likes to watch ESPN. So if you get the feeling he's repeating himself every half hour, that's where he learned it from.

Jimmy Fallon

#25. We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future.

S. N. Goenka

#26. The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.

Katherine Reay

#27. I am touched by her life, how it moves forward, pulses and springs. There is no fragmentation, nothing stunted or wedged. I circle back, I regress, the past doesn't let go. It might as well be a malfunction, a scene repeating itself, a scratched vinl record, a stutter.

Leila Aboulela

#28. There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again.

John Kramer

#29. To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.

Randal Marlin

#30. Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.

Syd Moore

#31. It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've done in the past in the hope we can stop repeating these horrible lessons.

Matana Roberts

#32. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.

Aaron B. Powell

#33. So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Gunther Schuller

#34. Death is the return to the very beginning of one's life, with the possibility of repeating it again.

Samael Aun Weor

#35. Fearing the future & worrying about repeating the past will always rob one of the present moment.

Timothy Pina

#36. The beautiful thing about history is that we keep repeating it. So if you know the past, you know the future.

L.G. Rivera

#37. This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh from the future, creating an interlacing pattern, a grand design, a repeating motif. Don't dismiss myth, boy. And never, ever, dismiss the Bookman

Lavie Tidhar

#38. As our eyes meet, I get a kind of deja vu, but instead of feeling like I'm repeating something in the past, it feels like I'm experiencing something that will happen in my future...It's like knowing all the words to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising.

Nicola Yoon

#39. How foolish we are to keep repeating the negative memories from the past in our minds, while rarely thinking of the good times, nor being thankful for what we have. Be good to yourself and repeat and focus on the positive.

Maddy Malhotra

#40. Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It's a mistake I don't want to repeat. (Xypher)
You know sometimes it's by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we're able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#41. It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry Kissinger

#42. At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Mark Batterson

#43. If you don't consciously design and choose your affirmations you are susceptible to repeating and reliving the fears, insecurities, and limitations of your past.

Hal Elrod

#44. The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".

Deepak Chopra

#45. It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. But what they called him isn't fit for mixed company and doesn't bear repeating. Stupid fuckheads. (Hauk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#47. By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

#48. I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.

Skandar Keynes

#49. When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.

Darren Hardy

#50. You have no idea," she whispered, repeating the first secret Ben had given her. "How fast my heart beats every time you're near.

Kayti Nika Raet

#51. Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.

Dan Abnett

#52. Till now I have always, thank God, been my children's friend and had their full confidence," said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who imagine that their children have no secrets from them.

Leo Tolstoy

#53. As you walk farther into the room it becomes a field of endless streetlamps, the stripes repeating in fractal patterns, over and over and over.

Erin Morgenstern

#54. Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down - or up, I suppose - replacing other people in the process.

Alexander McCall Smith

#55. Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

Pankaj Mishra

#56. Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

Charlotte Bronte

#57. Either you must control your thoughts or the outside forces will control them and be warned that the outside forces usually consist of fears, worries and doubts.

Maddy Malhotra

#58. That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.

C.S. Lewis

#59. If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#60. History repeats itself and that's just how it goes,

J. Cole

#61. For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Charles Palliser

#62. One of the things Ford Perfect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you've fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?

Douglas Adams

#63. This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating." "Well, it wasn't.

Cassandra Clare

#64. The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

Larry Wall

#65. Was on the point of crying at her, 'Don't you hear them?' The dusk was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the

Joseph Conrad

#66. Repeating a new behavior is what makes change stick.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#67. Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.

Pal Benko

#68. Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

Jonathan Kellerman

#69. Don't feel sorry for me, now. It was for science, and as long as something is for science, it's worth doing. It's just not necessarily worth repeating.

Mira Grant

#70. I keep repeating the conversation with Taduesz in mind, reaching out to touch it to make sure it doesn't disappear.

Brigid Pasulka

#71. There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.

Toby Jones

#72. It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

Robert Musil

#73. Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Charles J. Givens

#74. Did anyone know anything at all, or finding times when the truth didn't suit them, had they all been repeating falsehoods and nonsense for so long they no longer remembered what was fact and what was invention?

Edward W. Robertson

#75. What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

Jonathan Lethem

#76. This isn't the first time I've faced death, and I don't intend for it to be the last," I said, repeating the same words he'd told me before fighting in that fateful duel. "I've chosen to live a dangerous life, but it's who I am, and that wouldn't change even if we'd never met.

Jeaniene Frost

#77. My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

Neil Young

#78. I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

Rokia Traore

#79. I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

Simon Le Bon

#80. While I still do a lot of horror, it doesn't feel to me like I'm repeating myself. I like to stay interested. I'm kind of turning into one of those elder statesmen, like a Vincent Price or a Donald Pleasence. I like to think of myself alongside those guys.

Robert Englund

#81. The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde.

Barry Gifford

#82. Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

Umberto Eco

#83. Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

Gertrude Stein

#84. You were upset. I hurt you. Something must have happened to make you stay away from me. Is that right?" His nose was pressed under my ear and I fought back another round of tears because he just didn't fully grasp it. He could have been repeating Sheila's words for all I knew.
"You're leaving.

Amber L. Johnson

#85. Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

DJ Shadow

#86. In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

John Garamendi

#87. Again, again ... " really means "We must love each other, you and I, if this one story, told and retold, is all we need." Reading again isn't about repeating yourself; it's about offering fresh proof of a love that never tires.

Daniel Pennac

#88. 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