#patter

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides. ↗

— Junichiro Tanizaki

#darkness #find #itself #light #only

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#bad #clinging #family #like #love

And Flock Rule Number Two is, Don't argue with Max or you'll live to regret it." I spun and stomped out to the clearing, turning back for one last jab at Dylan. "And by the way, you clearly DON'T know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not." Fang rolled his eyes. ↗

— James Patterson

#humor #james-patterson #maximum-ride #humor

Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing and radiant daughter… Here we may whisper unheard, unafraid of the night. Walking alone…was it splendor, or what, we were bound with? Deep in the time when summer lets down her hair? Shadows we loved and the patterns they covered the ground with Tapestries, mystical, faint in the breathless air. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#magical #mystical #patterns #poetry #shadows

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#grow #honor #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #joy

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order? ↗

— Xun Zi

#conforms #desires #even #good #harm

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

#compete #copying #either #handicapped #handicaps

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns. ↗

— Ronald Graham

#math #patterns #science #sometimes

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space. ↗

— Ronald Graham

#called #controlling #juggling #patterns #sometimes

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society. ↗

— John Grierson

#appreciation #attend #changes #creative #forces