Quotes About Pattern

I know a profound pattern which humans deny with their words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak, they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet security, they squirm in it.

When I set out to lead humanity along my Golden Path I promised a lesson their bones would remember. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence. —Leto II, the God Emperor

I know a profound pattern which humans deny with their words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak, they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet security, they squirm in it. How boring they find it.

All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats.

All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenaline addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats.

He was a creature who had developed firmly into one pattern. He'd destroy himself before changing into the opposite of that pattern.

I never trade any pattern unless it is present in support/ resistance areas.

To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

I'm never afraid of pattern or texture.

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

As Peter Bernstein has written, nature's pattern emerges only from the chaotic disorder of many random events.

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 see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don't fit well together anymore, it's all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.

Unfortunately, however, people don't change by learning more information. The only way to break a bonding pattern is through honest vulnerability.

When in a person's development courage begins to emerge—that is, when the person begins to break out from the pattern of devoting his life to getting others to admire him—an intermediate step generally occurs.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

Now that modern Western culture is itself starting to abandon rigid gender divisions and polarities, to challenge its customary sharp distinction between animal and human, and to admit to fluidity in the making and remaking of individual identity, it is beginning to perceive the same patterns in the creations of the Palaeolithic.

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).

I will always be made of things, and things will always be made of me. Nothing can get rid of me because I am already included into the pattern.

Logical research means the investigation of all regularity. And outside logic all is accident.

I was drawn to the contemplation of human injustice, I inclined myself to attenuate it, to explain it, to classify it in parts, to understand it, not according to a rigid pattern, but according to the time and place.

It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.

The stones do not tell us what is going to happen, or what we are to do, any more than the stars. They speak to us only of our present position in the great pattern. Where we are now; here. Sometimes that helps us to see the pattern more clearly. That is all.

Stars, galaxies, circled in cosmic pattern, and the joy of unity was greater than any disorder within.