#patter

Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. ↗

— H.A.L. Fisher

#destiny #europe #fate #harmony #history

I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#christ #dances #heart #i #i see

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people. ↗

— Andre Norton

#because #behavior #cats #creative #creative people

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories. ↗

— Alexander Osterwalder

#details #entrepreneurs #great #listeners #often

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#aging #decline #follow #growth #i

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. ↗

— Little Richard

#blueprint #guided #had #i #idea

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#developing #different #different directions #directions #each

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fiction #fictional #life #meaning #pattern

But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia ↗

— James Patterson

#james-pattereson #patterson #the-fire #whit #wisty

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#history #history-repeating-itself #patterns #free