Quotes About Pattern

We are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and have been since we began drawing on cave walls.

They quickly started passing from hand to hand and operated something like currency. The government first tried to forbid their use, then a year or two later—and this became a familiar pattern in China—when it realized that it could not suppress them, switched gears and established a bureau empowered to issue such notes themselves.

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

I have patterned myself after my father and God.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

A stylish throw. A good quality throw can last a lifetime and adds a dash of color and pattern as well as comfort and a homey quality.

Good habits were the easiest ones to break.

It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.

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 you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.