Pattern Quotes

823 quotes by 666 authors

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence… — Anne Carson
Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego… — Eckhart Tolle
Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that… — Rick Riordan
THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern.… — Janet Evanovich
Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern. — Dawn Powell
But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more… — W. Somerset Maugham
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life… — Sebastian Faulks
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work… — Helen Keller
She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at… — Lorrie Moore
You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race… — Neil Gaiman
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that… — Richard Dawkins
The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern… — Dan Millman
And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are… — Michael Jackson
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. — Bruce Lee
The human mind delights in finding patternâ€”so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought… — Stephen Jay Gould
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. — Marcel Proust
She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out… — Marianne Fredriksson

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