Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The biggest thing when you're playing live is that you're sitting across from the player and can get a detailed impression of… — Phil Ivey Copy Share Image
Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting… — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Copy Share Image
We've found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or… — Victor Sperandeo Copy Share Image
I've spent my life capturing beautiful images. And whether in wilderness or in the downtown of a giant city, I find connections,… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as… — Stanley Fischer Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though -- not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I figured the process of someone standing at a shelf and deciding what juice to buy is going to be very different… — Peter Fader Copy Share Image
The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at… — Judy Grahn Copy Share Image
My daughter will say she's hungry, and I'm like, 'Buddy, you're just bored. Do you understand? And you're already starting a pattern… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“It is easy to surround yourself with people who think in the same ways, believe the same ideas, and live life in… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We can go for days, weeks, and even months without saying or thinking the word 'education.' And yet, day in and day… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
On a psychic level, we could be carrying energies and entities and cravings and habits and confusion and patterns of behavior from… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean… — William M. Gray Copy Share Image
I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the… — William Feindel Copy Share Image
They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image