Pattern Forming Quotes

#1. I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between.

Nadja Spiegelman

#2. Women are networkers, women hate hierarchy and especially entrepreneurs hate hierarchy because when they see hierarchy structured in they see rules and regulations are commonplace, and they want to tear it down.

Anita Roddick

#3. When you're lost in the middle of a set of dominoes, you can't see the pattern that's forming in the falling blocks around you.

James Renner

#4. I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

Malaika Arora Khan

#5. He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

Gene Mauch

#6. Morality is a closely knit garment that binds tightly when it binds at all, but the vastnesses that lie between the stars are prone to unraveling it, to plucking it apart into so many loose threads, each brightly colored, but forming no discernible pattern.

George R R Martin

#7. Let's be honest here," I said, throwing it all out. "We both know I'm gonna fuck up. But I'm pretty sure I love you, Em." Her breath caught. "What did you just say?" "I love you,

Joanna Wylde

#8. It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

Don DeLillo

#9. As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa.

Gerald Durrell

#10. We can get used to just about anything but it doesn't mean it's okay

Sarah Ockler

#11. We are continuing God's work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and "unfold" creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God's pattern of creative cultural development.

Timothy Keller

#12. We had been pulled apart by absence, but that same absence had shackled us together for life.

Siri Hustvedt

#13. I crouch hidden among the boulders, my body broken and bloodied. Below me, someone is about to murder my best friend, the one person who understands me. If I act, I will likely lose my own life. If I don't, I'll lose so much more ...

Rae Carson

#14. The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.

Royce Gracie

#15. I closed my eyes as if to join the maiden as the droplets rearranged themselves, forming a pattern resembling an elongated island on the rim of an undisturbed blankness

Patti Smith

#16. Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques
actually defensive bastions against community.

M. Scott Peck

#17. There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index.

Bob Tyrrell