#patter

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies. ↗

— Ben E. King

#buddies #come #coordinator #dad #guess

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself. ↗

— Jil Sander

#fashion #fashion statement #feel #i #itself

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#addictive #becomes #desperate #feels #good

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#i #i love #love #music #patterns

Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. ↗

— John Green

#life

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#community #down #first #foremost #handed

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#big government #business #capitalism #clear #consistent

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#dimensions #emerge #habit #living #long

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cat #diagram #embodied #fish #given