In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
We must believe in Christ and pattern our lives after him. We must be baptized as he was baptized. We must worship… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves.… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the… — G. B. Caird Copy Share Image
I think it helps to get a film made because people who put money in are nervous. They like to have something… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
As long as we are focusing on the breath we do not feed our mental, emotional, and physical patterns. By returning to… — Martine Batchelor Copy Share Image
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
That [silk-screen process experience] carried over when I returned from the Army and took more graphic classes at the Institute. And Alix… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last,… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale 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
There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from… — George Stapledon Copy Share Image
So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of… — William James Copy Share Image
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a… — Marianne Fredriksson Copy Share Image