Top 100 Quotes About Repeats
#1. Storytelling explores the problem with people. Stories without conflict are bad stories that no one repeats. Conflict describes the reality of human life and interaction with others. The resolution of the conflict in which everyone lives happily ever after reflects the human yearning for hope.
Harry Lee Poe
#2. History repeats itself and that's just how it goes,
J. Cole
#4. He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
Khalil Gibran
#5. I do not know if the story repeats itself: I only know that people change little
Octavio Paz
#6. Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl Marx
#7. Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
Lois Wyse
#8. No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.
Storm Jameson
#9. While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
Eric Alterman
#10. Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.'
Debra Messing
#11. Traaaiiinnn," Roc repeats slowly, sounding out the word for me like I'm stupid. "T-R-A-I-N. Spell it with me, Tristan.
David Estes
#13. Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.
Alan Moore
#14. We are condemned to repeat the past whether we remember it or not. It is inevitable; just ask Nietzsche (eternal return) or Hegel (history repeats itself) or James McCourt (history repeats itself like hiccups). Beirutis
Rabih Alameddine
#15. A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals
that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.
Zadie Smith
#16. A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud.
G.K. Chesterton
#18. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?
Varlam Shalamov
#19. He's paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?
Sara Gruen
#20. Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
Alan Lightman
#21. The wind whispers Alex's name and the ocean repeats it; the swaying trees make me think of dancing.
Lauren Oliver
#22. When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.
Edmund Fuller
#23. There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
Victor Cruz
#24. Photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
Andy Grundberg
#25. Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
Oscar Wilde
#26. When a cycle in your life repeats, you should troubleshot where the glitch is. Find the glitch and you will find your purposed journey.
Tanya R. Liverman
#27. But optimism dribbles away when horror repeats.
Tim Reed
#28. The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.
Meridel Le Sueur
#29. The characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.
Jean Genet
#31. History repeats itself but without a parity bit
Nauman Khan
#32. OSWALD: [Repeats, in a dull, toneless voice.] The sun. The sun.
Henrik Ibsen
#33. I'm sorry," he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. "I'm sorry for everything.
Lauren Oliver
#34. "History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
G. M. Trevelyan
#35. One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
Robert Collier
#37. History repeats itself is another way of saying the past harmonizes.
Stephen King
#38. History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.
Demetri Martin
#39. A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations of the same theme.
Pitigrilli
#40. Goddamn amateurs," Trigg mutters. "Ten minutes," Holiday repeats.
Pierce Brown
#42. All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.
Kenneth Roberts
#43. There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.
Alan Watts
#44. Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world
Repeats the passage of the universe
To God; the name of Christ
the one great word
Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.
Philip James Bailey
#45. History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
Erik Qualman
#46. The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
John Burroughs
#47. Spencer repeats, a little harsher now. I want kissing, I want mad fucking passionate kissing. The kind of kissing I've seen in all those other photos of you, the kissing that is so filled with emotion and longing and lust, I'm instantly hard. Kiss me like that, Blackbird.
J.A. Huss
#48. The wise man says: the wind carries all noises, but only repeats the real ones!
Roger Leloup
#49. He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27).
Maximus The Confessor
#50. Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ... with wordless variety ... She spells the name of Love.
Joan Walsh Anglund
#51. You should've told me," she repeats. "Because here's a news flash: You might've wanted to shelter me, but there's nowhere you can hide me that'll keep me safe from what's inside my head.
Laura Kreitzer
#52. Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean De La Fontaine
#53. Once you find a warmup routine that works, repeat it as habitually as possible.
Ted Corbitt
#54. Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms.
Jorge Ramos
#55. Nature is infinite innovation and beauty that never repeats itself. Only man-made artifacts are endlessly repetitious, which is a principal reason our lives are so boring, full of anxiety and devoid of meaning.
Dee Hock
#56. Anyone who repeats a question when they're asked one is just buying time.
Priscilla Glenn
#57. The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#58. Maybe it was love or maybe it was just loss," he repeats slowly. "I like that. That makes sense to me. Because sometimes you don't know, you just know what you had is gone and you know how that makes you feel.
Karina Halle
#59. Friendly makes sales - and friendly generates repeat business.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#60. To all of you, I repeat: Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! And not only that, but I say to us all: let us not rob others of hope, let us become bearers of hope!
Pope Francis
#61. Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! (audience repeats) I promise to be unique! (audience repeats) I promise not to repeat things other people say! (audience repeats, laughs) Good!
Steve Martin
#62. An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.
Jim Jarmusch
#64. One dinner. One night. No repeats.
Whitney G.
#65. Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby
#66. The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.
Ramakrishna
#67. I wasn't the only one hungry on the road, it seemed; a single bite - even a minor scratch - from one of the infected, and we were as good as dead. (And so the cycle repeats.)
Bryant A. Loney
#68. What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.
John Murphy
#69. The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.
Roger Penrose
#70. For every written history, there is a silenced part of it, that is left to remain untold and undiscovered until history repeats itself.
Joon Mier Da Mienta
#71. Bending instead of breaking," he repeats. "That's probably always a better option if you can take it, isn't it?
C.K. Kelly Martin
#72. I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election?
L.M. Fields
#73. I will never be crazy," repeats the adolescent hero to herself. "I will never get killed. I have to grow up.
Blanche McCrary Boyd
#74. Anything that Aaron Sorkin writes, I could watch a million times. One of the few shows that I've watched in repeats was 'The West Wing.'
Ben Feldman
#75. The barberry berry sticks on the small hedge,
cold slits the same crease in the finger,
the same thorn hurts. The leaf repeats the lesson.
Robert Lowell
#77. See you around," I said.
"See you around," said one.
"See you around," said the other.
The phrase echoed in my heart for a long while.
The bus door closed with a bang, and then they were waving to me from the window. Everything repeats itself...
Haruki Murakami
#78. History repeats itself, you sang. I wonder if that's true. If there's a hurt
that's buried in us, maybe it keeps fi nding its way through.
Ava Dellaira
#79. Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. (Prov. 17:9)
Scotty Smith
#80. I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond.
Will Estes
#81. Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
Ronald Wright
#82. Repeats are the worst, and 'Peanuts' was the one that started that. They don't rerun the news, do they? They don't repeat any other part of the paper. Why do they do it in the comics?
Stephan Pastis
#83. A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#84. Voice. "Evidence?" he repeats. "Who is that?
Jodi Picoult
#85. Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
Will Durant
#86. Defeats are merely repeats with better information.
Orrin Woodward
#87. What happened out there?"
"I almost got quarking toasted by a dragon."
"A dragon," he repeats, scandalized. "Are you mad? Or have you been skulking around the bars of Barbary XIII?
Nenia Campbell
#88. MIMIC He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. WM-ST-63
Kahlil Gibran
#89. The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.
Glenn Beck
#90. I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe in it. And I'm shocked how generation after generation repeats the behavior.
Gerald Stern
#91. She tilts the computer screen toward Drew "A boy," she says. "Luke." ...
"Luke," Drew repeats. "Bible or Star Wars?"
"Star Wars," Vanessa says, thinking of Teri's engineer husband.
Meg Donohue
#92. If they can't repeat it, they didn't get it.
Sam Horn
#93. Howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl gargle gargle howl gargle gargle gargle howl slurrp uuuurgh should have a good time. Message repeats.
Douglas Adams
#94. Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontogeny repeats phylogeny, because children go through something like the same thing.
Robert Neelly Bellah
#95. When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
Jared Sparks
#96. Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?
Frank Herbert
#97. You've ruined me," she repeats, her voice quieting a little as it catches. "You've ruined me - you made me wake up. And now I can't get rid of you." Her voice surges again as I reach out, curling my hand around her arm, her skin flushed hot under my fingers. "You won't leave me alone.
Amie Kaufman
#98. Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.
Joanna Russ
#99. You're you,' he repeats, his eyes full of grief. 'You're the same girl who crashed on this planet with me, who I dragged through forests and over mountains, who climbed through a shipwreck full of bodies to save my life. You're the same girl I loved, and I love you now.
Amie Kaufman
#100. History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides,
Barbara W. Tuchman
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