Patterns Quotes
1313 quotes by 981 authors
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I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours…
— Richard Paul Evans
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The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment…
— Cormac McCarthy
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...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and…
— Tom Robbins
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Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
— Michael Shermer
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There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the…
— Jodi Picoult
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In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks,…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,†i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic…
— Ayn Rand
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I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which…
— Germaine Greer
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You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional…
— Isaac Asimov
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What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few…
— Jeanette Winterson
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There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I…
— Philip K. Dick
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All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
— Ray Bradbury
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It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession…
— H.G. Wells
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The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all…
— Saul Alinsky
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Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to…
— Ram Dass
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