Patterns Quotes

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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are gone.… — Anne Cassidy
A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom — W G Sebald
The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most… — Michel de Montaigne
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man… — Eric Hoffer
For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in… — Judith Viorst
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge. — Ralph Ellison
The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern. — Saul Bellow
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved,… — Margaret Mead
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the… — Margaret Mead
Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community… — Li Peng
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. — Seneca the Younger
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new… — Alfred North Whitehead
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse. — John Keats
The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it… — Germaine Greer
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The… — Edward de Bono
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family.… — Anne Stevenson
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. — Robert Graves
Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in… — Desmond Morris

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