Tatyana Tolstaya Quotes

At regular intervals in Chinese history it suffers complete collapse and the central government disintegrates.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

History is the same thing over and over again.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Things work in cycles.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

History repeats itself, first as history, then as farce.

History repeats itself–the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

What once happened will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall combine in the same way.

History goes in cycles.

In all things there is a law of cycles.

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

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

History repeats herself.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different