Patters Quotes

#1. It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.

Charles Duhigg

#2. I reach for her hand and wind my fingers through hers, turning them so the rain patters down onto her palm. I trace a circle there with my thumb, smoothing the water in her skin. I want to show her there's nothing to be afraid of.

Amie Kaufman

#3. Rain patters on the roof of the wagon like the dancing feet of a hundred happy elves.

Carrie Anne Noble

#4. We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#5. The homely and erotic patters of marriage are not easily discarded.

Ian McEwan

#6. Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.

Robert M. Pirsig

#7. Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

Richard Branson

#8. It seemed she was in a cathedral - if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone.

Laini Taylor

#9. That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

Morten Tyldum

#10. Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Haim Ginott

#11. Lots of men would love to
Fuck you silly. The words just popped into his mind. Jesus. Where had that come from?

Joan Kilby

#12. Is your marriage a contract or a covenant?

Randall Foreman

#13. I read fantasy books like the Harry Potter books, 'Twilight,' also biographies, and I like to read about people who have been through stuff like wars or lost their families - real life stuff, you know? I like to read about their experiences and how they coped with that.

Wynter Gordon

#14. I hope a great young Reagan will emerge.

Pat Boone

#15. Venetia had no guile, and no affectations; she knew the world only by the books she had read; experience had never taught her to doubt the sincerity of anyone who did her a kindness.

Georgette Heyer