Quotes of: Repeats Keyword

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

The God Delusion

Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128

The Goldfinch

Don't keep looking for "something" in the bag of "nothing". You will see the same thing again and again no matter how many times you repeat the look.

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

My grandmother whispering to herself, over and over, "David is in heaven now, David is in heaven now,' my mind repeating Schrodinger's Cat, Schrodinger's Cat.

Gut Symmetries

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

Halfway to the Grave

Don’t believe everything you repeat in your mind!

How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

Just repeat this phrase whenever you feel the urge to jump some other guy’s bones.” His mouth brushes my ear. “Loren Hale fucks better.

Addicted to You

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

We are in a boy recession," Eugene repeats. "There's been a sudden, drastic decrease in the male population at this school. And I'm gonna take advantage of it.

The Boy Recession

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

Wassily Kandinsky

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken ...

Jerry Saltz

An award would be more prestigious if it came with a supplemental income for a year, so you could focus on repeating your title.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

Anna Karenina

That’s the thing with reality, he said, you can’t repeat it to order, you can’t correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

All Days Are Night

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

The Astral

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

Killosophy

You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated. "Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!

Red Mars

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.             * I abjure advice-giver.

Star Dust

you find yourself repeating, ‘They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays.

The Sense of an Ending

Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu