Pattern Quotes
823 quotes by 666 authors
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Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher…
— Kate Atkinson
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We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.
— William Gibson
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But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the…
— Nicholas Sparks
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And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers…
— Philip Roth
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The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of…
— Aldous Huxley
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I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know…
— William Shakespeare
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I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a…
— Jonathan Ames
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a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only…
— Tom Wolfe
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Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern."…
— Kelley Armstrong
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All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own…
— Iain Banks
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I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for…
— Mary Balogh
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The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to…
— Louis L'Amour
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If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.
— Lisa Kleypas
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The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one…
— Hendrik Hertzberg
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And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes…
— Ralph Ellison
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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of…
— Alan Lightman
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..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like how…
— Lauren Oliver
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Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.
— Diane Ackerman
Who Wrote These Pattern Quotes
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