Repeating Quotes
279 quotes by 249 authors
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This isn’t the first time I’ve faced death, and I don’t intend for it to be the last,†I said, repeating the same words he’d…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used to go on…
— Shin Kyung-sook
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Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get,…
— Yukio Mishima
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The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".
— Deepak Chopra
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When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the…
— George Orwell
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Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a…
— Jeff Lindsay
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For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back, easy and smiling again. “I left a note for you one…
— Lauren Oliver
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Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Nana glanced at Ben. "I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.
— Nicholas Sparks
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I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something…
— Gretchen Rubin
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Desperately struggling, kicking down other people. Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over. And even so, you aim for the horizon over…
— Yana Toboso
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We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
— Joe Queenan
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All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
— Margaret Atwood
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If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?
— Jodi Picoult
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
— Lily Tomlin
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The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
— Julius Wellhausen
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Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus there is no…
— Karl Popper
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we…
— Joseph Joubert
Who Wrote These Repeating Quotes
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