Pattern Quotes

823 quotes by 666 authors

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family.… — Anne Stevenson
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. — Robert Graves
Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too… — Lewis Mumford
You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as… — Thomas Merton
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to… — Hannah Arendt
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that… — Gregory Bateson
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists. — Julian Barnes
Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion. — Irving Stone
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. — Philip Sidney
At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships.… — Margaret Mahy
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. — John Noble
By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. — Leo Ornstein
Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you… — Leo Ornstein
The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic… — Carleton S. Coon
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked… — Ian Rankin
It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little. — Nicole Richie
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living.… — Octavia Spencer
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge… — George Stigler
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in… — D. V. Ager

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