Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

History repeats herself.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

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

I think history is just so cyclical.

History goes in cycles.

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

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

History is about loops and continuums.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

I think it's despicable. I also think it's frightening that we seem to live through history over and over again. And I don't know if I'm the only one. I feel like, when you read through history books, you always judge those people in that time.

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

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

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

The past is the present and the future too.

The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.