Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

It's just the way the large-scale atmospheric patterns have set up.

You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops.

It is very important that they get a uniform pattern of water.

Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail,

David Mitchell

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

This is a pretty typical pattern for March.

You're seeing a big shift in the spending patterns of consumers.

Bruce Lee

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Albert Einstein

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

Albert Einstein

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

Donald Curtis

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Dalai Lama

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

Deepak Chopra

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

Andrei Tarkovsky

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

Chuck Palahniuk

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

Alice Munro

Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

Alice Childress

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

T. S. Eliot

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

Rupert Sheldrake

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

Starhawk

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

Rick Riordan

Patterns repeat themselves in history

Margaret Halsey

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns ...

Michael Ondaatje

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Maya Lin

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Mignon McLaughlin

Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

Marianne Williamson

There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.

James Cameron

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

Gary Snyder

When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.

Esther Hicks

You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.

Francis Bacon

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

George Eliot

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.