Patterns Quotes

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Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of… — Robert Macfarlane
But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that… — Marcus du Sautoy
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and… — Spider Robinson
As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate… — Gerald Durrell
I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd… — Edie Sedgwick
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and,… — Alice Childress
Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star. — Wilferd Peterson
To any situation the reaction may be different. That's why it's useless - in a way - to memorize patterns, because the possibilities in life… — Vladimir Vasiliev
The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows. — Donald Curtis
These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by… — Jim Schwab
Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and layers of official… — Jane Roberts
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs.… — William O. Douglas
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire… — Pema Chodron
I am not against money - remember. Don't misinterpret me: I am not against money. I am not against anything. Money is a means. If… — Rajneesh
Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves… — Evelyn Lau
Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren't just the stories of one life; here are… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz
A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you… — Elizabeth Hay
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations,… — Adam Zagajewski

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