People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows. — Donald Curtis Copy Share Image
When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to. — Tana French Copy Share Image
No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. — Little Richard Copy Share Image
Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world. — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little… — Richard Brancatisano Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for… — Bun B Copy Share Image
Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return… — Richard Moss Copy Share Image
You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.” — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. — Rumi Copy Share Image
It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed… — R. F. Delderfield Copy Share Image
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with vintage stuff, I was obsessed with sort of the old lady floral patterns and like Paisley stuff. — Claudia Jessie Copy Share Image
“Habits are patterns, and even the smallest ones tell a lot about who you are as a person.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics. — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
