“ Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer. Roger Scruton
“ He placed a pinch of snow on his tongue and thought of making snow ice cream with Frank and their mother when they were small boys - 'First you stir in the vanilla' - Frank standing on a stool on his… Emily St. John Mandel
“ Human being living at the level of biomass will comply with all standards and patterns that are required by the surroundings and society Sunday Adelaja
“ [The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning… Ralph Linton
“ To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives.… Oliver Sacks
“ A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. Maurice Strong
“ I wonder at the starry pattern in the skyAre they little pieces of moon which want to fly..? Munia Khan
“ If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there… Robert Greene
“ There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from w… Richard K. Morgan
“ Life knows what you want, and gives you exactly the same thing, at the moment. You attract exactly what you want in the moment. You have to remain present in the moment. If you are already lost in you… Roshan Sharma
“ Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Terry Tempest Williams
“ There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme Jacqueline Carey
“ Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars… Ray Bradbury
“ Until you are willing to learn the lessons, pay attention to details, and become patient with yourself, you will keep repeating the same patterns over and over again. Kemi Sogunle
“ It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.''Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps there is no beginning, perhaps we can't look that far back.' He got up from his desk and went over to th… Peter Ackroyd
“ Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. Michael Shermer
