Alternated Patterns Quotes

#1. For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.

Peter Mandelson

#2. Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.

Adrian Peterson

#4. If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

Bodhidharma

#5. You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

David Naughton

#6. Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

Thomas Sowell

#7. For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

David Grubbs

#8. I can live this life. I can. I can. It's a spark I want to cherish, a splutter of life in the flat battery; but just at the wrong moment I catch a glimpse at the night sky ... , and I can see that there's nothing out there at all.

Nick Hornby

#9. I only ask your help, for which I have nothing to give in return."
"Nothing? You call your theory nothing"
"Weigh it in the balance with the freedom of one single human spirit," he said, turning to her, "and which will weigh heavier? Can you tell? I cannot.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. But she realized that modern homemaking could be creatively fulfilling in a way she'd never imagined. Unlike previous generations of housewives, who Erika imagines were bored and dissatisfied, Erika says women her age treat the duties of the home as outlets for their creativity.

Emily Matchar

#11. Life sucks. Enlightenment is getting over it.

Ari Delta

#12. Water is the soul of the Earth.

W. H. Auden

#13. You could clearly tell that the country had no sovereignty: this was still colonization in its ugliest face. In the so-called free world, the politicians preach things such as sponsoring democracy, freedom, peace, and human rights: What hypocrisy! Still, many people believe this propaganda garbage.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#14. I hope you have had spiritual experiences that have taught you that the only source of comfort when you are afflicted is the Word of God. Only it assures you of your salvation.

C.F.W. Walther