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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within. -- Robert Frost
Love's a recurring theme through my work. -- Tracy Chapman
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains. -- Alex Berenson
Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious. -- Gary Speed
I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time. -- Keir Dullea
It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about. -- Adam Beach
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly. -- James W. Black
My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships. -- Billy Corgan
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme. -- Salman Khan
I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think. -- Kevin McCloud
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound. -- Jon Ronson
I love HBO and Showtime, especially Showtime. I'm a huge 'Dexter' fan, and I love 'Weeds.' That would be cool to do a recurring role on a show like that. -- Aly Michalka
I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too! -- Tracy Chapman
I have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing at me, and I look down and realize I'm naked. And a shark. -- Dustin Milligan
'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters. -- Donald Ray Pollock
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
I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her. -- Dan Fogler
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. -- Charles Jencks
I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed. -- Marina Abramovic
We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons. -- Sara Zarr
As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments. -- Kevin DeYoung
When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place. -- Zeljko Ivanek
The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions. -- Conor Oberst
Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace from volatile parts of the world. And nations everywhere thrive and prosper from the contributions of immigrants and the children of immigrants - including right here in the U.S. -- Al Sharpton
We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem. -- Paula Deen
I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back. -- Seth Gabel
My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?' -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
All recurring joy is pain refined. -- Amy Lowell
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. -- Frank Herbert
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. -- Ron Fournier
Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within. -- Robert Frost
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. -- Doris Lessing
I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost. -- Lana Del Rey
A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention. -- Amy Hardie
The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem. -- Richard Winters
My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles -- Gustav Mahler
The fears we keep alive, will be a recurring haunt until it dies, or we do. -- Anthony Liccione
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye -- Jack Handey
I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme. -- Dwight Yoakam
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity. -- Guenter Lewy
I believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame. -- Andy Kindler
I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal. -- Jules Feiffer
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. -- Marcel Proust
Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness -- William Carlos Williams
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
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. -- Charles Darwin
I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. -- Azar Nafisi
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure. -- Sri Aurobindo
When God gives you some opportunities, it is almost like a process that you do not even realize what is recurring at the moment. -- Barbara Padilla
The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise. -- David Small
I tend to have more anxious dreams where I'm late getting to places. That's definitely a recurring dream; I hate being late to places. -- Felicia Day
We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them. -- Marcus Buckingham
Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber. -- Dennis Miller
I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image. -- Vinny Guadagnino
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair. -- Elizabeth Prettejohn
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
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts. -- Vera Nazarian
Whereas, if you just say all right, let's try to bring in some recurring people, maybe that will alleviate some of the burdens on the budget moving forward. -- Aaron Korsh
I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing. -- Alastair Campbell
When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory. -- Alan Dale
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
Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deepslowbreathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands. -- T.F. Hodge
I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I play the love of his life. It was really fun to do that. -- Carrie Preston
I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is. -- Gerald Morris
If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs. -- Greg Behrendt
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them. -- Margaret Mead
I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed. -- Patti LuPone
Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved. -- Martin Buber
Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands. -- T.F. Hodge
I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that. -- William H. Macy
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
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. -- Albert Camus
The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff. -- Peter Hammill
I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time. -- Anne Fortier
I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally. -- Trevor Noah
Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes. -- R. S. Thomas
Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets. -- Jewel

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