Pattern Quotes

823 quotes by 666 authors

If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon… — Rick Riordan
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently… — Diane Duane
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not… — Toni Morrison
All human behavior, all human motivations, all manâ€™s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankindâ€™s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of… — Robert A. Heinlein
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing… — Robert A. Heinlein
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know… — Eve Ensler
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us… — M.F.K. Fisher
There is at the back of every artistâ€™s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed. — David Sedaris
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180). — Rosamunde Pilcher
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the… — Kate Morton
My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look… — M. Russell Ballard
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. — Alan Moore
For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it… — Elizabeth Goudge
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory… — Terence McKenna
â€¦God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to… — Rohinton Mistry
The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern. — Chip Heath
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnetâ€¦There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. Thatâ€™s a very strict… — Madeleine L'Engle

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