It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. – Gregory Bateson
People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years. – John Hume
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. – Edwin Louis Cole
Russia continues to side with… rogue states and terrorist organizations, following Vladimir Putin’s pattern of gratuitous and unpunished affronts to U.S. interests. – Mike Pompeo
The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble. – Michael Korda
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off. – Gary Wolf
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. – John Strachan
There’s a certain pattern that exists with geniuses – an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. – John Noble
We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption. – John Sulston
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. – K. Eric Drexler
The Obama administration has an undeniable pattern of using regulatory overreach and intimidation to further its political aims. – Ron Johnson
I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc. – Patricia Millett
The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts. – Russ Feingold
Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush. – Timothy Noah
I’ll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that. – Trisha Goddard
Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over. – William Lacy Clay, Jr.
