You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
My mom taught me how to sew when I was super young; I used to make clothes for my dolls. When I… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant… — Carol Kent Copy Share Image
As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge,… — Mandy Aftel Copy Share Image
The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and… — Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Copy Share Image
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves… — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
It`s all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices,… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Visualizing, creative mental picturing, is no more difficult than what you do when you remember some scene out of the past, or… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point. — William Morris Copy Share Image
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many,… — William Styron Copy Share Image
...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. — Little Richard 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
