Repeat Quotes
877 quotes by 735 authors
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It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…
— Carter G. Woodson
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I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being…
— James Joyce
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Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
— Daniel Handler
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When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so…
— Diane Ackerman
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I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre
— Charlotte Bronte
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I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place…
— Jan Karon
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The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a…
— Joseph Goebbels
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Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
— Homer
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I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for…
— George Santayana
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But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must…
— Adolf Hitler
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what…
— Lloyd Alexander
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I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's…
— Elaine Dundy
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It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we…
— C.S. Lewis
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