Quotes About Pattern

At the threshold of the divine, how to know But indirectly, to hear the static as Pattern, to hear the rough-edged white noise as song— Wait, not as song—but to intuit the songbird, Within the thorn thicket, safe, hidden there. Every moment is not a time for song or singing. — Eric Pankey, from "Ash," Crow-Work (Milkweed Editions, 2015)

Naming a pattern immediately

Group unity in participation is still so widely prevalent, even in modern man, that it is only through the ceaseless conscious efforts of certain individuals of genius that we gradually become aware of the psychic factors which, as the unconscious "cultural pattern" we so blindly accept, regulate the life and death of each one of us.

Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures, stick a label on the restored find and—hey, presto!—once again everything fits splendidly into the approved pattern of thought.

The way we eat is not a question of worthiness but of routine and preference, built over a lifespan.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.

Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

Pattern was a family name belonging to their great-grandmother, who lived on a brutally cold little island, and who, according to their mother, had made a sport of surviving terminal illnesses.

but always the prevailing trend was down.

what looks like chaos is often self-organised in an intricate and invisible way.

Why is geometry often described as ""cold" and ""dry?" One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.

I just want to be more regular.

The fact is that the climate changes regularly.

The Obama administration has an undeniable pattern of using regulatory overreach and intimidation to further its political aims.

There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.

I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.

But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going to be doing. Your life has a physical pattern. There's something about the odd, repetitious nature of it that I find hugely relaxing. All the problems of life are taken care of for that bit of time.

One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.

So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.

We are all working from the same dog-eared script.

So, are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?" she says. "That's my, like, pattern. Run away from one, bump into the next.

Routine is important, I think. A good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings.

She's floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.