Repeating Events Quotes & Sayings

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common. — Rita Mae Brown

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

I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge. — Kara Swisher

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way. — Ben Okri

Romantic Egoist
Besides, love is just one among many mysteries that logic alone cannot explain. — Bisco Hatori

...and if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer. — Hannah Arendt

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body. — Marsilio Ficino

An important book for understanding the history of our economic boom & bust cycles. It's an eye-opening account of how we are repeating the mistakes of the 1760's, 1850's, and 1920's. The author is a brilliant writer and is so good at explaining even the most complex subjects in a compelling & easy to understand way. The next crash will be painful but it's important to understand what is being done to us, and how we can learn from history and take action. — Thom Hartmann

Here's the first thing you need to know: all the fairy tales are true. Oh, the specific events that the Brothers Grimm chronicled and Disney animated may only have happened once, in some kingdom so old that we've forgotten whether it ever really existed, but the essential elements of the stories are true, and those elements are what keep repeating over and over again. — Seanan McGuire

Every step is on the path. — Lao-Tzu

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare. — Michael Ignatieff

Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now. — J. Valor

If quantum mechanics is how reality structures itself, then the world is far weirder than we think. It is truly a wonderful time to write Science Fiction! — Stavros Halvatzis