Patterns Quotes

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Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing… — Robert A. Heinlein
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know… — Eve Ensler
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us… — M.F.K. Fisher
There is at the back of every artistâ€™s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed. — David Sedaris
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in… — David Byrne
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180). — Rosamunde Pilcher
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the… — Kate Morton
My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look… — M. Russell Ballard
Iâ€™m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Iâ€™ve seen a chunk of the universe,… — Ann Aguirre
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. — Alan Moore
For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it… — Elizabeth Goudge
The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so… — Jeanette Winterson
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns. — David Mitchell
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory… — Terence McKenna
Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may… — Michael Shermer
â€¦God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to… — Rohinton Mistry

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