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Quotes About Pattern

Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive. Vomiting bunnies wasn't so terrible once one had gotten into the unvarying cycle, into the method. You will want to know why all this work, why
~ Julio Cortazar
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
I always say investors invest in lines, not dots.
~ Payal Kadakia
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Life is a beautiful thing, but a lot of it, it kind of replicates itself.
~ Rob Halford
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~ Francesca Simon
Seeing is a vigorous, pattern-seeking process.
~ Francis D.K. Ching
Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
~ Frank Crane
Storybook events come in threes. So, it seems, does Hell.
~ Franny Billingsley
when the cost of believing a false pattern is real is less than the cost of believing the genuine pattern, natural selection will favor the false pattern.
~ Frans Johansson
Pattern, you're to be our chaperone tonight." "What," Pattern said with a hum, "is a chaperone?" "That is someone who watches two young people when they are together, to make certain they don't do anything inappropriate." "Inappropriate?" Pattern said. "Such as . . . dividing by zero?
~ Brandon Sanderson
I wasn't complaining', Pattern complained.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Very well, you two," Pattern said. "No mating. NO MATING." He hummed to himself, as if pleased, then sank down onto a plate.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The less we see chaos, and the more we see the pattern , the better we're going to be at understanding just what we fight -- and just how to defeat it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What," Pattern said with a hum, "is a chaperone?" "That is someone who watches two young people when they are together, to make certain they don't do anything inappropriate." "Inappropriate?" Pattern said. "Such as...dividing by zero?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Cadsuane, do you believe that I could kill you? Right here, right now, without using a sword or the Power? Do you believe that if I simply willed it, the Pattern would bend around me and stop your heart? By . . . coincidence?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Oh!" Pattern said suddenly, bursting up from the bowl to hover in the air. "You were talking about mating! I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!
~ Brandon Sanderson
Pocas cosas son verdaderamente aleatorias
~ Brandon Sanderson
Like a highstorm, regular in their coming, yet always unexpected.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Rich people, she decided, loved to stick with a theme.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Where do our habits come from? he thought. What secret factory produces our habits, both good and bad? Ellen Magnusson
~ Henning Mankell
There is, perhaps, no surer mark of folly than an attempt to correct the natural infirmities of those we love. The finest composition of human nature, as well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it; and this, I am afraid, in either case is equally incurable, though, nevertheless, the pattern may remain of the highest value.
~ Henry Fielding
My mother still has a three-step system to eating candy corn. First she eats the white tip, then the orange middle, then the yellow end. She swears each segment tastes different.
~ Rosecrans Baldwin