Top 214 Recurring Quotes & Sayings

As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

When God gives you some opportunities, it is almost like a process that you do not even realize what is recurring at the moment.

All recurring joy is pain refined.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

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.

I used to have a recurring black-and-white dream where I would drive in on a hover car and raid the shoe closets of this huge mansion. I don't know what that means at all, to be honest.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

I am used to moving homes in football, and it seems to be a recurring theme in my career.

I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I play the love of his life. It was really fun to do that.

I got a chance to act in a film, 'Derailed.' I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

The cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.

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 think.

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.

It's a recurring thing: It's that I fall really deeply for bad relationships. It's just always been this way and not changing.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

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.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.

I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that.

Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Sometimes I long for the parents I didn't have; that's a recurring nightmare.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

I have a recurring role on 'NCIS' and that's been a lot of fun.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife fantasy.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing at me, and I look down and realize I'm naked. And a shark.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

I believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame.

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.