Recurring Quotes

90 Recurring quotes by 83 unique authors

Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns… — Dan Miller
I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. — Azar Nafisi
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such… — Frank Herbert
I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people… — Greg Kinnear
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change,… — Alfred North Whitehead
What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the… — James Clerk Maxwell
Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended. — Charles Lindbergh
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. — Marcel Proust
I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal. — Jules Feiffer
Love's a recurring theme through my work. — Tracy Chapman
I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated… — Konrad Lorenz
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is… — Don DeLillo
My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I… — Cristin Milioti
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a… — Jon Ronson
I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be… — Dan Fogler
Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in… — W. W. Rouse Ball
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. — Charles Darwin
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that… — Rene Magritte
We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them. — Marcus Buckingham
Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then… — Criss Jami
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. — Ron Fournier
My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my… — Billy Corgan
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. — Doris Lessing
I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I… — Kevin McCloud

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