#patter

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#consciously #could #except #feeling #feelings

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. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#concert #feel #fingers #fly #go

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#both #evil #future #good #good and evil

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#long #patterns #precepts #short #way

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#nothing #patience #pattern #say #will

Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#everybody #know #patterned #somebody #themselves

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#attracted #believe #comes #i #i believe

You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#concepts #defined #did #his #i

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#his #ideas #like #made #maker

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