Pattern Quotes

823 quotes by 666 authors

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; thereâ€™s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more. — Ray Bradbury
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession… — H.G. Wells
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries… — Madeleine L'Engle
Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all… — Saul Alinsky
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy… — Frank Herbert
Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves… — Rick Riordan
... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it… — Jane Green
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a… — Barry Lopez
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions… — Herbert Marcuse
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the… — Adrienne Rich
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a… — Chuck Palahniuk
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown… — Aldous Huxley
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of… — Isaac Asimov
Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are… — Doris Lessing
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such… — Thomas Hardy
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected… — Virginia Woolf
That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't… — Philip Reeve
A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up… — Rudyard Kipling
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that weâ€”I mean all human beingsâ€”are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of… — Virginia Woolf

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