If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
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I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love... There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to… — James O'Dea Copy Share Image
The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
I also think it's still easy for us - as women, as writers and as directors and producers - to let it… — Mary Elizabeth Ellis Copy Share Image
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Thus, in a crucial way, the Kansas hearings repeat the pattern set by the Scopes Trial, which has been repeated many times… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
There are no insignificant relationships. Every experience that we have contains purpose and meaning. Each event, each person in our lives embodies… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
While understanding the 'what' and the 'how' of the gospel is necessary, the eternal fire and majesty of the gospel springs from… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out… — W. Brian Arthur 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Just the way sound creates visible waves as it travels through a droplet of water, our "belief waves" ripple through the quantum… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
Why even live? If that's your goal, if you're just clamoring your way to the top, I mean, why even have a… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again!… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
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