Quotes About Pattern

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

It was a pattern he would play out his entire life: Rather than lose someone he cared for, he would withdraw first, usually by creating some mock conflict as a way of lessening the abandonment he felt was inevitable.

Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.

One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate, and provoke study, and when you follow the lame, uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradictions.

I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.

Stephen Jay Gould once wrote that the human mind delights in finding pattern — so much so that we often mistake coincidence . . . for profound meaning.

The past does not repeat itself but it often rhymes.

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty one, Once short February's done.

Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; When short February's done, All the rest have thirty-one.

The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

Out of little observations huge ideas may grow; and if a mind, made receptive by training in the use of the senses, can store away a mass of observations, the time will come when the whole collection can be unrolled, connected together as a great novel is planned, in a compelling pattern that tells us something new. Many

Wilder offers this as his explanation of why good people have to suffer in this life. God has a pattern into which all of our lives fit. His pattern requires that some lives be twisted, knotted, or cut short, while others extend to impressive lengths, not because one thread is more deserving than another, but simply because the pattern requires it.

For the most part, serial murder is a sex crime, a fact that accounts for its distinctive features. The classic pattern of serial murder is a grotesque travesty of normal sexual functioning.

He (God) invented mother's heart & he certainly has the pattern in His own

He invented mother's hearts--& he certainly has the pattern in his own.

My father chose to have relationships at the expense of having a self, a pattern that began long before he met and married Rose.

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

A keen observation shows that the whole universe is a single mechanism working by the law of rhythm; the rise and fall of the waves, the ebb and flow of the tide, the waxing and waning of the moon, the sunrise and the sunset, the change of the seasons, the moving of the earth and of the planets, the whole cosmic system and the constitution of the entire universe are working under the law of rhythm. Cycles of rhythm, with major and minor cycles

The more we awaken to the beauty of this dance being patterned throughout our lives and the uniqueness of our own personal dance step with the divine, the more miraculously our lives flow.