Top 100 Repeat Quotes
#1. It's always scary when you're doing a sequel to a film, because you don't want to just repeat the first film in a different location like most sequels. You want to do something totally different, and something that actually expands the world of the main character.
Efren Ramirez
#2. In the end I chose the names I still liked after repeating then 100 times. It's a foolproof test. You repeat something 100 times and if you still like it it's because it's good. This doesn't just work for names, it works for anything, food or people.
Juan Pablo Villalobos
#3. This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.
Agnetha Faltskog
#4. As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
Andy Stanley
#5. Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
Joe Baca
#6. Driving home I see the playground but it's all wrong, the swings are on the opposite side. "Oh, Jack, that's a different one," says Grandma. There's playgrounds in every town." Lots of the world seems to be a repeat.
Emma Donoghue
#8. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker
#9. There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.
Jonah Goldberg
#10. Camillo always say we are on earth to learn. I think I want to teach. I want to teach history so that the world does not have to repeat our mistakes.
Amy Harmon
#11. Before he lets me go, he tells me what life looks like. "There's the walk into battle. The battle itself. And the walk away." It's a cycle we repeat. Every day. Sometimes it's over small stuff. Sometimes it's life and death.
Suzanne Phillips
#12. We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.
Pope John Paul II
#13. After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.
Gjon Mili
#14. The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.
John F. Carlson
#15. Because I've yet to see mankind make a mistake that it was unwilling to repeat.
Patrick W. Carr
#16. If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.
Dale Carnegie
#17. Chill, dudette," he says. He grins. "Did I say that right? I learned it from Pete." I shake my head. "You really shouldn't repeat what Pete says, Henry. It's not healthy." I laugh at his crestfallen expression.
Tammy Falkner
#18. Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
Bette Davis
#19. Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
Malcolm Turnbull
#20. The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a fault and boded no ill but thought well enough of themselves to repeat their presences.
William H Gass
#21. Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
Andre Gide
#22. It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.
Joseph Addison
#23. Today, the future of Venezuela won and, as we said, we repeat to everyone: there is a path, there is a path for progress, for the future, to make Venezuela a greater country.
Henrique Capriles Radonski
#24. When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!
Ken Hensley
#25. You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it. Humans can ... how do you moderns say it ... think outside the cup.
Rick Riordan
#26. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
John F. Kennedy
#27. Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.
Alcee Hastings
#28. We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?
Buzz Aldrin
#29. After a bad day there's always hope in remembering that the day cannot possibly repeat itself, therefore all who still treat you badly because of it are thinking in the past. Tell them that, it will make you feel better.
Unknown Author 649
#30. Im convinced that hell has an intercom system and the buzz of my alarm clock is played at full volume on repeat against the screams of all the lost souls.
Colleen Hoover
#31. Yes: I repeat it this day. I know no effectual remedy for the love of self, but a believing apprehension of the love of Christ.
J.C. Ryle
#32. Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.
Rose Wilder Lane
#33. Repeat the good. And the bad. Do it all ... and pile on the years.
Natsuki Takaya
#34. He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.
Joshua Reynolds
#35. I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
Baron De Montesquieu
#37. Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?
Audrey Regan
#38. When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.
Bear Bryant
#39. Is there a behavior you would like to make into a habit? Then reinforce it by repeating that behavior at every opportunity. Is there a behavior you wish to change? Then substitute another one and repeat the new one often. In this way you build the kind of life you want ... day by day.
Steve Goodier
#40. All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
Paulo Coelho
#41. I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.
Lyle Lovett
#42. How do you know, and I mean really know, when you're in love with someone?"
...
"It all feels like a dream," he says.
"A dream," I repeat. Ain't he right.
Tarryn Fisher
#43. No, we cannot change
the mistakes we've left behind.
But there's one thing we can do -
one thing I must do -
we can choose not
to repeat them.
Holly Bodger
#44. I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.
Nadia Boulanger
#45. It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.
Norah Jones
#47. I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
Marina Abramovic
#48. While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.
Douglas Booth
#50. All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare
Jorge Luis Borges
#51. I repeat ... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
#52. A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
Glenn Greenwald
#53. I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.
Arca
#54. A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. An origin, I repeat, is not confined to the past: it is a whirlwind, in Benjamin's very fine image, a chasm in the present. And we are drawn into this abyss. That is why the present is, par excellence, the thing that is left unlived.
Anonymous
#56. Let me repeat: Observe a particle as a wave, and it is a wave. Observe it as matter, and it is matter ... Thus it is our point of view, the way we look at reality that makes reality the way it is.
Joachim-Ernst Berendt
#57. Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.
Sun Tzu
#58. A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#59. Let me repeat what history teaches. History teaches.
Gertrude Stein
#60. People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.
Karl A. Menninger
#61. You, right this minute, stand at the growing tip of evolution. The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.
Anonymous
#62. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school
Josh Stern
#63. Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do, I do.
Jaida Jones
#64. Mysteries like these repeating cycles make it very interesting to be a theoretical physicist: Nature gives us such wonderful puzzles! Why does She repeat the electron at 206 times and 3,640 times its mass?
Richard Feynman
#65. Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
Dan Phillips
#66. True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
George Gershwin
#67. To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole
#68. Why make a biopic if it's not somehow helping us now? There's really no point. If it's not informing how we can do things differently now and maybe not repeat our mistakes, than why do this piece about this person or this event?
Dustin Lance Black
#69. She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss
David Benioff
#70. Just repeat this phrase whenever you feel the urge to jump some other guy's bones."
His mouth brushes my ear. "Loren Hale fucks better.
Krista Ritchie
#71. Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.
Ray Romano
#72. From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm.
Alison Weir
#73. History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
Max Beerbohm
#74. I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!
Adoniram Judson
#75. Anyway it was an idea of mother's and she often used to repeat it, that you ended up getting used to everything.
Albert Camus
#76. I always say that it's very important not to blame one person. You have to own whatever part of it you're responsible for. It takes a lot of soul-searching. It's important to go through that, because hopefully you won't repeat yourself.
Reese Witherspoon
#77. I would say for a great percentage of people, all they do is repeat their past. They really don't have a future at all.
William S. Burroughs
#78. Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#79. In training a dog you must reward only those behaviors you desire the dog to repeat endlessly.
Alexandra Horowitz
#80. It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.
Lee Gutkind
#81. But on those Friday afternoons, ambition did not spread its wings to embrace the study of medicine. We all wanted to be masters like our teachers. Their life appeared to be so enjoyable. All they had to do was learn the lessons set, by heart, and sit and hear boys repeat them by rote.
Austin Clarke
#82. I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Jules Verne
#83. Mr. Wallace, would you please repeat what you recall that this Dylan Jones chap told you. Particularly about what he claimed is needed to free up your inheritance
James Ignizio
#84. To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
Oscar Wilde
#85. The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.
Frances Mayes
#86. Best advice to writers - Read, write, read, write - repeat!
Lilly Cain
#88. Some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.
Suzanne Young
#89. My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.
Connie Schultz
#90. 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
#91. You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
Herbie Hancock
#92. If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.
Mark Batterson
#93. Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, 'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'
Gina Rodriguez
#94. He was in hell. Worse than that, he was in hell, and someone had set it on repeat.
Dennis Sharpe
#95. The link economy encourages bloggers to repeat what "other people are saying" and link to it instead of doing their own reporting and standing behind it. This changes the news from what has happened into what someone said the news is.
Ryan Holiday
#96. Daniello, you do not like the bread? Eat! ...per favore, have some pasticcio di gnocchi alla boscaiola!"
"As long as you don't ask me to repeat the name," Dan replied.
Luna Amato chuckled. "Charming boy."
"Handsome, too," Dan said.
Peter Lerangis
#97. The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.
Annie Lennox
#98. Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one.
Mark Hart
#99. Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.
Laura Schlessinger
#100. I envy the man to snatch him up. This will be the only time in life I'm siding with Freud and experiencing 'penis envy'. There will never be a repeat. Can't be associated with too much crazy, I'm juggling enough on my own.
Ambrosea Brown