Top 25 Patterns Quotes of 585 - Page 24

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

Anne Rice

Hotel Lobby, Laughing, Patterns

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

Anne Rice

Water, Losing Someone, Patterns

Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.176, Ballantine Books

Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.

Amalia Kahana-Carmon

May, Patterns, Structure

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

Alice Munro

Sides, Patterns, Pot

Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.155, Vintage

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

Aleksandar Hemon

Roots, Mind, Patterns

"There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, Space, Patterns

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.68, Souvenir Press

The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today's advanced economies' operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector credit than anything we have ever seen before. Furthermore, this pattern is seen across all the advanced economies, and isn't just a feature of some special subset (e.g. the Anglo-Saxons).

Alan M. Taylor

Special, Credit, Patterns

Source: www.truth-out.org

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Alan Greenspan

Issues, Calling, Patterns

"Greenspan Is Concerned About 'Froth' in Housing". Speech at the Economic Club of New York, Hilton New York hotel in Midtown, www.nytimes.com. May 21, 2005.

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

Al Gore

Thinking, People, Patterns