Pattern Quotes

823 quotes by 666 authors

One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is… — Roger Rosenblatt
It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be. — R. F. Delderfield
At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a… — Louise Erdrich
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that… — Dorothy L. Sayers
What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave ... — Francis Marion
I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible. — Skeet Ulrich
If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe… — Tatyana Tolstaya
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that… — Richard Rohr
We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we… — Louise Hay
There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit… — Bill Pullman
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells… — Daniel Gilbert
In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and… — Emanuel Celler
So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and… — Thomas Dolby
The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also… — Russ Feingold
If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one… — David Graeber
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real… — Peter Ackroyd
The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of… — John Desmond Bernal
And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but… — Theodor Adorno
A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security -… — Anthony Giddens
Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny… — Rene Dubos

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