Selfrepetition Quotes & Sayings

There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong. — Margaret Thatcher

It's a great day for America, everybody! It's Monday, woo. — Craig Ferguson

At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes. — Amin Maalouf

Can you think yourself to death? — Anna Kamienska

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained. — Stefan Zweig

So long as the investigation is still open, Gunnels explains, there is no way to request documents pertaining to the case through the Freedom of Information Act. "That investigation will probably stay open a long time," he says. — Matt Taibbi

One thing I'd learned in life was that women could bitch about their men until they were blue in the face and you could listen and nod and offer support. But you never as in never said something bad about a woman's man no matter how much she bitched or how much he may deserve it. It always came back to haunt you. — Kristen Ashley

If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won't feel like kissing her. — Monica Bellucci

The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally. — Patrick Marber

Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it. — Timothy Noah

Besides it only happens when you're not looking for it.
That's what everybody claims. Easier to say that than This shit sucks. — Junot Diaz

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away. — Major Owens

In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what's going to happen. But knowing what happens isn't the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part. — Emery Lord

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. — Wallace Stevens