Top 203 Repeats Quotes & Sayings

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

History repeats herself.

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.

Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

History repeats itself.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

History never repeats itself, historians do.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

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

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

When you, like if you sing a song and it gets into your brain that it becomes, it repeats and repeats like an affirmation so I find that quite empowering and quite important to keep my positive attitude to life.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Repeats are the worst, and 'Peanuts' was the one that started that. They don't rerun the news, do they? They don't repeat any other part of the paper. Why do they do it in the comics?

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.

He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.

Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

A small poet repeats himself like a clock.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.