Quotes with pattern

  • Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
  • One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm - not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.
  • Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
  • A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
  • When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.
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  • Helen Rowland A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Brit Morin Brit + Co tries to help women understand that they are creative and give them all sorts of opportunities to try their hand at something creative. We want it to be as easy as possible to start. If that means you uploading a pattern to Spoon flower and make wallpaper, that's great. You made it!
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Developing prayer fitness is similar to developing physical fitness: we must follow a pattern in order to stay balanced.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Lee Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
    Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Bjork He offers a handshake, crooked five fingers
    They form a pattern yet to be matched
    On the surface simplicity
    But the darkest pit in me is pagan poetry
    Songs Pagan Poetry, from Vespertine (2001)
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Anne Stevenson I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Anais Nin I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Doris Lessing If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Iris Murdoch In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Arianna Huffington It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Judith Viorst Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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