Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

And anyway, the anticipation was always worse than the thing itself - the anticipation and the memory, of course. And the anticipation of the memory was maybe the worst part of all.

Cartwheel

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

The Coming Storm

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

Democracy in America

In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.

Det syvende barn

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

Digital Filmmaking

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Das Kapital/Das kommunistische Manifest

Life feels like fall of itself.” “'A dream within a dream.” “And I want to wake up.

Dangerous

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

Demonology: Stories

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

The Dispossessed

until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall.

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

All it takes is rumor...The danger itself is irrelevant. It's the perception of danger we're selling.

Donny and Ursula Save the World

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

Eat, Pray, Love

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

The Enemy

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

Existence

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

Fahrenheit 451

Time is forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures and in one of them I am your enemy.

Ficciones

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

Four Ways to Forgiveness

... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.

Gifts

Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was conscious of itself. ("The Moon Slave")

Ghostly By Gaslight

Not only it is annoying, it is distracting from life itself. ~on what TV is.

The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 5

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

By His Bootstraps