Best 65 quotes in «cycles quotes» category

My hand-stitched wings itch to take flight to test the winds of change that inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

That’s the thing about living on the earth – we humans can make all sorts of decisions and plans, but at the end of the day, the earth always gets the last word.

One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity of electrical storm activity. Too much lightning activity may cause excessive mating, aggression, fatigue, illness and disease to occur. Too little may turn off the animal and plant breeding cycles.

The ceremonies that persist—birthdays, weddings, funerals— focus only on ourselves, marking rites of personal transition. […] We know how to carry out this rite for each other and we do it well. But imagine standing by the river, flooded with those same feelings as the Salmon march into the auditorium of their estuary. Rise in their honor, thank them for all the ways they have enriched our lives, sing to honor their hard work and accomplishments against all odds, tell them they are our hope for the future, encourage them to go off into the world to grow, and pray that they will come home. Then the feasting begins. Can we extend our bonds of celebration and support from our own species to the others who need us? Many indigenous traditions still recognize the place of ceremony and often focus their celebrations on other species and events in the cycle of the seasons. In a colonist society the ceremonies that endure are not about land; they’re about family and culture, values that are transportable from the old country. Ceremonies for the land no doubt existed there, but it seems they did not survive emigration in any substantial way. I think there is wisdom in regenerating them here, as a means to form bonds with this land.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year, saves the harvests of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust. Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine, clear the ground of rotten races and dens of distemper, and open a fair field to new men. There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order. The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets, and the fevers and distempers of men, self-limiting. Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. Without war, no soldier; without enemies, no hero.

There is something particularly special and personal about the circle and how its curves comfortably rule every aspect of our lives.

Through knowledge we gain power over our lives. With options we have possibility. With acceptance we find a new freedom.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.

We trust nature to know what it is doing, but we are not nearly so kind, understanding and trusting of our own rhythms and cycles. It's ridiculous that we are so hard on ourselves. Can we not trust that the very same forces that created the rhythms and cycles of nature created our own? Of course we can. We often don't, but we can, if we remember.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

When you don’t complete a cycle of action it’s because you cannot see the good in it.

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.

The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's just what we saw in the past, but in reverse; that everyone should have his turn is only meet. And it shall be turnabout again tomorrow, for nothing in Nature is stable and the governments men direct are bound to prove as changeable and ephemeral as they.

The silicon microchips themselves might be cheap (relative to times past, anyway), but CPU cycles are not cheap. Every CPU cycle consumes clock time. Clock time is latency. A wasteful application makes its users wait longer than they need to, and if there’s anything users hate, it’s waiting. For web systems, latency in the application has a dual effect. The added processing directly increases the burden on the application servers themselves. Suppose that an application takes just 250 milliseconds of extra processing per transaction. If the system processes a million transactions a day, that extra 250 milliseconds per transaction makes for an extra 69.4 hours of compute time every day. Assuming an 80% load factor on each server, you’ll need four additional servers to handle this load.

Time has a way of eternally looping us in the same configurations. Like fruit flies, we are unable to register the patterns. Just because we are the crest of the wave does not mean the ocean does not exist. What has been before will be again.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death.

I danced through chemo and radiation cycles.

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

Funk is the unending cycle of life.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

I'm out to take the Bible, create disciples who make disciples, disciple cycles.

It had been an annoyingly peacful time in Boarderland, Blister cranky and despressed because he hadn't filled anyone with pus for nearly an enitre lunar cycle.

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

Many of us know more about the workings of our car than we do the reproductive cycle.

Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot.

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.

We're all nurtured by mother nature's cycles and seasons.

What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway.

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

A bird flashed across the empty sky. A cart immobile on the horizon, like a midday star. How could a plain like this be remade? Yet someone would, no doubt, attempt to repeat their journey, sooner or later. This thought made them feel they should bet at once very careful and very daring: careful not to make a mistake that would render the repetition impossible; daring, so that the journey would be worth repeating, like an adventure.

And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.