Recurring Quotes

• That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time

  Brian De Palma

  Girl, Dream, Strong

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• I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

  Donald Miller

  Change, Walking Away, Mind

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.10, Harper Collins

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

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Passion, Giving, Way

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.70, Penguin

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

  Ron Fournier

  Character, Narrative, American Exceptionalism

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

  Robert Frost

  Answers, Depends

  "The Road Not Taken and Other Poems".

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

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Attention, Want

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Religious, Literature

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.36, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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

  Lana Del Rey

  Lost, Theme, Strongest

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• Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Death, Progress, Would Be

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead — out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need — we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts.

  Rolf Potts

  Dream, Fashion, Land

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Richard E. Grant

  Regret, Father, Drama

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• 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

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Grief, Despair

  "Thousands join pope on Youth Day", www.cnn.com. August 21, 2005.

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• I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

  Dennis Farina

  Tvs, Said, Wanted

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• O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

  Walt Whitman

  Dead Poets Society, Cities, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Knowledge, Science, Views

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.208, University of Chicago Press

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• The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Pride, Men

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

  Andy Kindler

  Believe, Character, Careers

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• To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.

  Tina Modotti

  Photography, Appreciation, Art

  Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”

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• Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of street organizers or a recurring voting constituency by teaching people of the streets to fish. When you 'share wealth around' you make the distributees dependent on your next handout - beholden to your largesse with other's people's money and personally worse off in every respect.

  David Limbaugh

  Teaching, Army, People

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• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, People, Drunk

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.60, Penguin

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• I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, "Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!" I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.

  Greg Kinnear

  People, Effort, Guy

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.

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• There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Change, Real, Two

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the direction of the electric displacement being at the right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both at right angles to the direction of the ray.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Light, Opposites

  James Clerk Maxwell (1995). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.195, CUP Archive

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

  Marcel Proust

  Heart, Friendly, Fit

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1490, Jester House Publishing

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• One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?' Which says something about the nature of philosophers , because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Philosophical, Squirrels

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.10, Random House

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