Patterns Quotes

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead
The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation. — Henry B. Eyring
Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives.… — Henry B. Eyring
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard. — Martin Filler
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic… — Martin Filler
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best… — Chuck Palahniuk
When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of… — C.S. Lewis
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of… — Cormac McCarthy
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical… — Mark Haddon
If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing,… — Donna Tartt
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. — Hart Crane
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,… — Doris Lessing
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and… — Robert M. Pirsig
Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a… — China Mieville
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. — Rumi
Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is… — Neal A. Maxwell
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon… — George Orwell
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? — Marcus Aurelius
Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events… — Cormac McCarthy
...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the… — Thomas Hardy

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