Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

The Shadow of the Wind

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A Tale of Two Cities

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience

The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays

Wisdom Sufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

Thinkers of the East

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Till We Have Faces

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

Orlando

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

The Political Writings of St. Augustine

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life

Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.

Pleasure

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

On the rare occasions on which a movie was shown, there was as much suspense in the audience over whether the electricity would hold out to the end of the film as there was in the film itself.

The Path to Power

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

The Prophet

But the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious.

The Parasites

Morgan was looking at the food in front of her suspiciously, as if it intended to merely reside for a bit inside her, then liberate itself at a most inconvenient time.

Princess of the Sword

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

A Pluralistic Universe

The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one,

The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems

If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

Too Loud a Solitude

Never did an eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

Tangled Tides