Pattern Quotes

823 quotes by 666 authors

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead
The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation. — Henry B. Eyring
Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives.… — Henry B. Eyring
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best… — Chuck Palahniuk
When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of… — C.S. Lewis
If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing,… — Donna Tartt
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. — Hart Crane
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,… — Doris Lessing
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and… — Robert M. Pirsig
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. — Rumi
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon… — George Orwell
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? — Marcus Aurelius
Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events… — Cormac McCarthy
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment… — Cormac McCarthy
...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and… — Joni Eareckson Tada
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. — Michael Shermer
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the… — Jodi Picoult
My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that â€œdoesnâ€™t count,â€ i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic… — Ayn Rand
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which… — Germaine Greer
All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as… — Kim Stanley Robinson

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