Pattern Quotes
823 quotes by 666 authors
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It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings.…
— Edward Steichen
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More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds…
— Marvin Olasky
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Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is instantly available. By…
— Wilferd Peterson
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When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity…
— Genevieve Gorder
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All it takes for a contagious manly culture to form is for one genuine man to live out genuine manhood. It creates a model, something…
— Stephen Mansfield
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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches…
— Abbott Lawrence Lowell
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A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom
— W G Sebald
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most…
— Michel de Montaigne
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To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man…
— Eric Hoffer
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For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in…
— Judith Viorst
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
— Ralph Ellison
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The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
— Saul Bellow
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The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved,…
— Margaret Mead
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Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the…
— Margaret Mead
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Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community…
— Li Peng
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it…
— Germaine Greer
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