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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Ernest Hemingway

Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.

Michel de Montaigne

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Judith Viorst

The typical pattern in American history is that when things are going well, we welcome immigrants. When they're going badly, we tell them to stay away.

Stephen Klineberg

It seems the overall work of the moratorium was really trying to allow for growth but keeping the pattern of density that exists now. It's a balance, a very delicate balance, to try to find that middle line.

Anne Krieg

The fact of the matter is that you can protect people to a certain extent, but you always come up with a bigger bomb. We just need to continually hone our skills ... so that we don't set a pattern that the enemy can exploit.

Genpeter Pace

If the pattern plays out, you'll get the first decent downside correction we've seen in a year.

Jeff Saut

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

Frederick Scott Oliver

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Frederic Ruffy

We are sensitive to the fact that there is a pattern of difficulty here that needs to be attended to, which is why we need a face-to-face discussion.

Carl Goldberg

We can see a predictable pattern.

Anthea Coster

This is part of a troubling pattern by the government of spying on peaceful groups.

Kathleen Taylor

Ill tell you what we don't eat on the Fourth of July. French toast, Asian food, Lasagna. Are you spotting a pattern here?

Harry Balzer

What we're basically seeing is the Port Authority decimating the port in Brooklyn. This is part of the pattern of them shutting down the port.

Matt Yates

For each woman, the pattern is different. That individual woman will know, for her, if a change has occurred. Every woman is really different.

Pamela Boggs

This is consistent with this board's pattern of disrespecting shareholder interests in favor of entrenching themselves in their lucrative positions.

Ralph Whitworth

You can't attribute it to any one cause. It constitutes part of the pattern.

Kelly Redmond

Patterning really leverages all of these technologies where you just need to have something on a wafer or a chip at a high resolution.

Professor Paul Berger

Everybody is in a holding pattern waiting for Mr Blix.

Jim Volk

Employers are not going to break out of the recent hiring pattern. There will be no sudden explosion in hiring.

Jeffrey Joerres

You see all kinds of remains, I'm sure you look for deaths from victims of child abuse. Do you see an injury or pattern.

David Haynes

What is needed are in-depth studies to try to understand better the pattern of growth in infancy and also to look at the factors that are associated with it.

Dr Janis Baird

When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.

Joe Flaherty

Most bizarre factual pattern I've seen in the nine years that I have been a prosecutor.

Tim Fleming

There are concerns, of course, about the danger to the community and livestock. We are trying to find their movement pattern.

Jeff Bradybaugh

Ice dance may look simple, but there's nothing simple about it. That's especially true in the compulsories, where everyone does the same thing. Your pattern and foot movements are both prescribed, and you have to execute them precisely.

Don Bradner

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Sir Philip Sidney

That was just our kids making a play. The first receiver (on the pattern) was open, but he (Johnson) held the ball too long, but he did make a play.

Brent Stroh

We choose to take a more cautious approach - what we've elected to call this is an unusual pattern.

Suzanne Condon

I've always let my catchers call pitches. If she gets into a pattern, I may step in. But I think it helps keep their mind in the game.

Roosevelt Newell

Focus Features is following a nationwide release pattern and playing it in just a handful of theaters. They haven't offered the film to us yet, but it might become more available, especially if it wins Oscars.

Ron Horton

I thought much of what he said fit into the pattern of our outline. I don't think I heard anything contradictory to our proposal.

Dan Holsenbeck

The question that remains out there is, 'is this merger going to work or is it just going to follow the pattern of all the other (airline industry) mergers and be something quite negative.

Julius Maldutis

It definitely changes your sleeping pattern a bit, but it's been a lot of fun.

Austin Kearns

[LOOK TO THE PAST] If your parents pandered to your every need, chances are you'll do the same with your kids, ... Dare to break the pattern.

Peter Cohen

We look for people with open hearts, open minds and open homes. Other than that, there's no pattern.

Lucy Hilburn

There's quite a bit of preparation in gathering pictures from my field observations. I sit down and draw a pattern until I'm happy with it.

Bruce Divaccaro

But this is a worrying pattern for English football. Are our stars of the future getting the opportunities they need?

Gordon Taylor

Some of the original members of the agency said they can't remember anything as big as this all the way back to 1951. Even though this weather pattern is normal for Tennessee, it's just not this intense normally.

Donnie Smith

The UK's economy is doing much better than that of its continental partners. Therefore, having this flexible working pattern in place improves the UK's economy.

Sean Mcguire

We'd been able to beat them on that pattern most of the night. I'd prefer he would have thrown it to the other side, but the kids played their hearts out.

Pat Herron

My goal is to seek a pattern -- a groundswell -- of Democratic town committee motions in Connecticut that will really get the senator's attention.

Len Swade

Do we give it to Ricky as much as we did? No. We've got to be careful about how much we use him early on, and then decide who's getting the ball in his place. Is it Travis Minor or is it going up to somebody [in a pass pattern], and that might mean 10 more to Rob Konrad or 15 more for Chris Chambers?

Joe Collier

They got into a pattern of under-investing in their franchise to try and boost revenues.

Denis Laplante

We can now see a pattern of coordination and deceit.

Brian Flaherty

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern; live your own life and follow your own star.

Wilfred A. Peterson

The pattern should be deeply concerning to everyone who cares about the principles of free speech.

Gary Peck

This is another clear example of what's become a pattern, that Bob Menendez does not do what's good for New Jersey, he does what's good for his campaign coffers.

Jill Hazelbaker

Here, you can't live as you like - in any way or circumstance. You're like a bit out of those coloured mosaics in the hall, you have to fit in your own set, fit into your own pattern, because you're put there from the first. But you don't want to be like a fixed bit of a mosaic - you want to fuse into life, and melt and mix with the rest of folk, to have some things burned out of you.

D. H. Lawrence

It is still patchy - the pattern of outbreaks - to really make a very definitive link between migratory birds and the disease.

Marco Barbieri

There's been an escalating pattern of complaints, most of the later ones having to do with refunds.

Frank Whitney

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Al Capp

Although humans and chimpanzees outwardly show a very similar pattern.

Stephen Wooding

Right now we're in a holding pattern to see what happens with the 18 holes. It hasn't been decided for sure either way.

Kevin Nelson

We're hoping some brilliant 8-year-old will see a pattern and tell us.

Hank Heasler

Overall, we're kind of in a holding pattern here, more than anything else. The dollar is displaying a bit of heavier tone.

Omer Esiner

In cloning, if you put in another nucleus and mess around removing things, chances are you're disturbing this pattern. You might get a messed-up placenta.

Michael Roberts

That?s our pattern in the fourth, to get to the line. I have confidence in our free-throw shooting.

Loren King

Sure enough, there was a pattern.

Richard Shine

During April, we're going to turn a corner. There are signs of the dry pattern breaking.

Gary Lessor

We've had a consistent pattern with our focus on good possession soccer. ... I thought we put together 70 minutes of consistent soccer, a really good group effort.

Rob Bohlmann

The historical pattern is for shocks of this nature to initially be absorbed roughly equally between lower savings and lower purchases for other goods and services.

Keith Hembre

For a district that doesn't quite follow the established pattern, there's a way for them to still meet the regulations.

Timothy Allwein

It's extremely important for districts like ours that are seeing a pattern of decline in enrollment.

Stephanie Hall

It certainly gives the idea that the Chinese might diminish demand for all kinds of goods, including the metals and energy. This raises concerns the Chinese might undertake a pattern of raising interest rates.

Daniel Vaught

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Henry Ward Beecher

It seems to be a regular pattern.

Linda Adams

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

It looks like we're venturing into a more active pattern here.

Chris Bowman

I don't know if it was topped wrong or hit by lightening, but it's not a typical growth pattern for a giant sequoia.

Vernon Esplin

New Zealand is ahead in the global cycle. The U.K., Australia and Canada are all in boats behind New Zealand, so they may follow the same pattern.

Andrew Bascand

There's a pattern of brain changes that we have shown is common across various types of addiction that we've also seen in pathologically obese individuals.

Nora Volkow

Basically we're on a holding pattern right now. Our expectation is that as soon as the order to stay by the [Chicago] judge is lifted, we will be going very fast and very furious.

Peter Chan

We've been in a six-week pattern of warm temperatures, which is a normal span. Now, we're entering a new one and it's coming from the Arctic and Alaska.

Alex Sosnowski

He does have that evidence, ... If it established complicity or pattern, he will be in a position to make that determination. But we'll have to await his report for that.

Paul Cavalluzzo

A big, bold pattern on the floor is more deceptive than one on the wall. There is no way of knowing what it will look like in a room without rolling it out there. Sometimes things recede, and sometimes they just jump off the floor.

Annie Selke

What we've found is, if you look at a couple segments of science, observational or modeling, there is no illustrated link between climate change and hurricane intensity. We actually have periods of intensity followed by periods of lower intensity. We have evidence of periods going back to the 1930s. It follows a clear pattern.

Kent Laborde

I do not believe this establishes a pattern and I believe these are rare occurrences -- very, very tragic and unfortunate occurrences.

Michael Ryan

He recognized there was a pattern on the altar cloth -- left in blood by what was the weapon that stabbed her, which was a letter opener.

David Yonke

Initially, the Endangered Species Act created a preservation pattern that was oriented species by species. It made for a complex but not very efficient system.

Stephanie Pincetl

This is a pattern of lawyers and others in the White House busting their backs to do the best work they can to be try to be responsive.

Charles Ruff

Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail.

James Montier

This pattern looks like it will continue well into next week.

Mike Chamberlain

This more pure measure has a nearly perfect prediction pattern dating back to 1966, with leads of 9-20 months.

Mike Englund

The city did not know that there was a pattern.

Derek Slap

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

Alice Childress

If he's putting signs down, I know he's thinking in a certain pattern from what I've done in the past with him, and so it's not a guessing game.

Bronson Arroyo

There's where we need some work to be done in South Carolina. The driver sets the pattern.

Max Young

This is a pattern that will go on as time goes on and market demands continue.

Terry Jackson

I redrew the pattern in Illustrator and blew up sections in a big format and taped them up to see how it looked.

Lisa Klofkorn

Investment in some industries is expanding too fast, the pattern of distribution of investment among different industries is irrational, and there is pressure for overheated investment to rebound.

Ma Kai

You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops.

Larry Aggus

No one has a feel for where the bottom is. The bond market is in a holding pattern waiting to see what the stock market does.

Jim Bianco

It appears our nation's pattern of payments is finally evolving - some might say it is experiencing a radical change - from one based on paper checks to one based on electronics.

Anthony Santomero

A pattern of deception and denial, and it is continuing to this day.

Patrick Eddington

Right now we need to return to a normal precipitation pattern for the spring.

Ron Ruman

It is forging its own pattern of performance, but it is doing sizable business every day.

Marc Shmuger

It looked like we would be experiencing below-normal temperatures through mid-January but now it appears that the pattern will end by the end of the month. That has taken the steam out of natural gas and oil as well.

Aaron Kildow

It's a real simple pattern, but that's all you need; there's no reason at all to make it complicated.

Bill Tenison

It's not just one vote. It's a pattern and behavior of Jim Gerlach.

Lois Murphy

We do not see a pattern; it's not like there's one injury befalling tennis players like, say, ankle injuries, ... to continue to improve the schedule to allow for appropriate rest.

Larry Scott

The vast majority of people who have signed up say they've had no problems. If there's a pattern of problems, that's news. But that's not what the majority of people are experiencing.

Mike Fierberg

Her pattern was when a child started crying, she couldn't stand it.

Kirk Anderson

I can't talk about the Langone case in particular, but there is a pattern: everything that goes to trial, and ends up in court, he loses.

Michael Greve

We're kind of in a holding pattern, waiting to see what happens (with the storm). But the overall tone of the market seems lower, and it appears to want to go lower.

Jay Finkel

We do have some concerns with the weather pattern coming in. With the river rising, the water won't have anywhere to go but through those neighborhoods.

Chris Badger

If there is a significant pattern that develops, the NCAA has the right to look at it as a major issue. But that's not what they've done here. It's just one of those things you just always have to have your antennas up.

Pete Boone

I'm sure (Public Storage) expected it. It's been their pattern for the last bunch of quarters.

Paul Adornato

If there is an overall pattern of differences here, it is that men value the Internet for the breadth of experiences it offers, and women value it for the human connections.

Deborah Fallows

They have a sort of opportunistic component to their life history pattern that's much more flexible than others.

Jae Abel

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Jodie Foster

The thing that would make me say this is more than something you can dismiss as exceptional local circumstances is that it fits a new bigger pattern.

John Curtice

If your parents pandered to your every need, chances are you'll do the same with your kids. Dare to break the pattern.

Peter Cohen

It's been a pretty good pattern for the mountains, even if it's been dry on the plains.

Joe Lester

If you care about that pattern of disparity, then it seems to me one of the things that is incumbent on you is to try to find out how we got here.

James Campbell

It is always dangerous to make comparisons, but having lived through February 1986, this current pattern is beginning to have that look to it.

Dave Reynolds

People fit into a pattern and wind up doing the same thing all the time. This is a great way to keep it loose.

Mike Beach

We realized that it also provided a wonderful opportunity to examine the impact of a low-fat eating pattern on weight.

Barbara V. Howard

He has a pattern of filing phony complaints against me.

Assemblyman Scott Sibley

The Republicans are yet again attempting to muddy the waters to divert attention from their pattern of abusing of power.

Jennifer Crider

The first two years are years of adjustment. And typically a pattern is set for the rest of the marriage.

Kathy T. Heustess

We had a mild pattern. The cold air that usually comes down from Canada stayed put. We [in Boston] are influenced by a lot of different patterns, and they converged to give us a warm January.

Tracy Mccormick

They've been getting pounded. They've been very wet this fall. It just happens to be the pattern we're in right now.

Bruce Terry

That is going to bring a lot of traffic to a particular area and so therefore business is going to have an interest in that traffic pattern.

Dee Haussler

This is a classic 'La Nina' pattern, with snow accumulating in the Northern Colorado mountains during the midwinter months.

Nolan Doesken

There's been a pattern change and we are looking at temperatures in New York which will average 6 to 10 degrees below normal. Things will bottom out on Wednesday when temperatures should fall to 18 degrees when the normal low is 34.

Dale Mohler

Technical analysis also dictates that the euro should decline with a head and shoulders pattern on the weekly charts generating a downside target of parity.

Benjamin Pedley

A similar seasonal pattern occurred in 2004 but then the TAI retracted only four index points from the November index compared to six points in 2005.

Richard Downing

The clues are well-hidden, but once you figure out the pattern for the code, you realize that a 10-year-old could figure it out. Once I solved it, I knew we were making it harder than what it really was.

Tim Stone

The Southern pattern was that every farm or plantation would have their family cemetery.

Charles Reagan Wilson

It's a pattern not uncommon in disaster areas. These people come in and acquire local companies, making the most of the reputations of those companies.

Larry Butler

The natural pattern of flooding supplies nutrients and sediment to wetlands areas, keeping them as kind of a buffer and a natural absorber when a really big storm hits.

John Rennie

Right now, the fish are in their spawning pattern.

Mark Noble

This is not a one-time thing for Martin. It is a pattern of caring and kindness.

Judy Gresser

January's record trading figures continue the pattern of accelerated SETS growth.

Clara Furse

We've followed the same pattern that Visit Florida showed, with regards to last fall. We were down in the fall.

Danielle Courtenay

Fairfax has never before given a Democrat 60 percent of the vote. You can no longer say it's a fluke when a Democrat wins Fairfax County. A pattern is emerging.

Gerry Connolly

This area of employment activity seems to be going full bore now. That was the characteristic we saw in the last expansion in the 1990 s. This sector was red hot then and it appears to be taking on that pattern again now.

John Shelnutt

The weather pattern lately has been a little bit more typical of something for May and June.

Ted Ryan

At certain markers on the Y chromosome, if it matches the Genghis Khan pattern, then on the balance of probability you are descended from the Great Khan.

David Ashworth

If we extract the rules of how these neural networks are doing computations like pattern recognition we can apply that to create novel computing systems.

Thomas Demarse

That's the environment that they were living in that night. The question is, was there a pattern?

James Coleman

We've been in this warm pattern for the better half of the last month, the average temperature for Melbourne this time of year is in the 70s.

Matt Bragaw

We're just in a holding pattern. I don't see any catalyst on the scene at this point to get stocks going.

Jim Volk

The pattern in which photons are blocked or not blocked had never really been computed. In the laboratory, we were able to construct a device that was effectively like doing a computer simulation to see the patterns of transmission.

Paul Steinhardt

Historical data clearly indicate that if a credit card turns up in two cities on two continents on the same day, that's a useful pattern.

Jeff Jonas

Everything that we look at as far as our forecast models, this wet pattern will keep going through the next seven to 10 days. There's nothing indicating it's going to stop.

Duane Dykema

We have got to be concerned about where we go. We have got to be concerned about costs. We have got to be concerned about changing demographics. We have got to look at changes in the pattern of health care delivery.

Stephen Berger

It looks like sales really happened in the last few days, following a pattern we've seen in the last few years.

Bob Buchanan

We are locked into a weather pattern right now.

Stan Wasowski

This pattern (of gender imbalance) may be teaching girls and boys that the lives of males and their stories are more important and valuable than those of females.

Stacy Smith

We are confident of the outcome for the year and expect that pattern of profit improvement will favour the second half.

Steve Russell

It's a winter weather pattern. We expect it to be tapering off through the weekend.

Bob Farrell

This seems to fit into a pattern of aggressive accounting by GM throughout the organization. One can assume that the accounting staff does not take a conservative approach to timing or cash flow allocation.

Natasha Tsiouris

It's very difficult to suggest a pattern.

Max Schlueter

It's not dead, but it's not alive. We're sort of in this holding pattern.

Patrick Cox

Where there's a pattern that's complex in a certain highly ordered way, so that it's best explained as a product of an intelligent cause. The other side says that's a code word for G-O-D. Well, that may or may not be the case.

Henry Morris

There's a recurring pattern of inability to produce reliable financial information. We should be entitled to know what the government is doing. ... People will feel better informed and know things are functioning as they should be.

Bernie Thomas

Hazing is where bullying becomes most clear, or where it is most simply enacted, because you can really see the negative acts form a pattern and you can also see an imbalance of power.

Stuart Green

Adding more condos and close to 100 people to occupy them could have a negative effect on the traffic pattern.

Bill Horton

Tonya Hawks so fits the pattern it's almost amazing. Typically, they're younger, and when a mom kills her kids, in the majority of cases, she almost always kills them all and she almost always has a plan to kill herself.

Cheryl Meyer

Notwithstanding a handful of continued announcements regarding downsizing or closure, the prevailing pattern in our industrial sector has been one of growth over a couple of years.

Lincoln Schrock

Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion.

J. G. Gallimore

No one is really that good at reading the crystal ball. (Dollar-cost averaging) puts in place a pattern of purchasing behavior that in time will average out to be good.

Diane Rolfsmeyer

(California) absolutely parallels the national pattern. The United States is the world capital of mixed feelings about capital punishment.

Franklin Zimring

It's part of a pattern.

David Osgood

When you talk about racism what do you look for? You look for a pattern, ... The black justices that have come before him for confirmation, there were 27. He voted for 26 -- voted, yes, for 26. I see a pattern there, but the pattern is what we're all proud of.

Charles Polk

We're in a holding pattern waiting for that. We haven't received a decision and the election is right around the corner.

Lee Haney

In general, we'd like to know who's related to whom, and the pattern of the branches of the tree of life.

Sean Carroll

To be honest, sometimes a rock worm feels like cheating because it's fishing a worm. It is a fantastic pattern that I've done really well on this winter.

Adam Grant

Good news is almost being ignored and bad news is being accentuated, and that's been the pattern for a week or so.

Tom Mcintyre

We know large earthquakes can happen in the East. The scary thing is that there's not enough of a record to know if there's a pattern to them.

Tim Long

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Donald Curtis

The pattern I saw in the independent league is they (organizations) take shortstops and pitchers. But how does stealing 38 bags and hitting .283 not get an invite.

Jack Santora

We're in a holding pattern.

Dale Anderson

Developing policy in a rapidly changing fact pattern isn't the most productive approach.

Michael Hogan

This is an unusual storm pattern.

Gwyn Howat

As a man of God and a man of the cloth, it is a continuing pattern of outrage to deny me the opportunity to see the institution, meet with the officers and hear the issues from the inmates.

Christopher Bullock

It always concerns me when we begin to lose some very key people and I'm afraid there may be more. People are indicating they are moving on to other opportunities but, as it becomes more of a pattern, I think it is a logical question.

Sue Gamble

The pattern that you will find in the people I appoint is they have extraordinary people skills.

Carl Cohn

People seem to follow a pattern. They go on, they check their own house, then houses where they've lived before, then their family and friends. We had someone tell us they pulled out their Christmas list.

Amy Bohutinsky

We believe there has been a consistent pattern of neglect to the transmission and distribution center at Edison for a period of years now.

Pat Clark

Your self image is your pattern!. Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns leads your life.

J. G. Gallimore

The allocation that you've arrived at is what you felt was your best chance (to make money), ... If the market is not doing well, that's part of the normal stock pattern. ... Focus on the long term.

Brian Shea

He is one of the best coaches in the state of Iowa. If I am going to pattern my success after someone, I want it to be him.

Charles Zanders

You couldn't necessarily say, 'That hurricane, that storm, that flood only happened because of climate change,' (but) you're starting to see a pattern of extreme weather events.

Margaret Beckett

You can make up your own pattern.

Connie Miller

We played aggressively and refused to let them establish any kind of an offensive pattern by pressing.

Tim Mayse

By opening the investigation, it doesn't mean they've done anything wrong. But we have enough consumer complaints that seem to have a pattern ... and we're not talking about small amounts of money.

Charles Gardner

It seems to be the pattern in the industry now to buy out smaller operators. This is just a normal course of the business.

Jim Card

It is easy for students to fall into the pattern of daily activities here. Whether it is the third floor of McCabe, Cornell basement or Hicks lounge, we spend an awful lot of time indoors, despite our beautiful campus.

Kavita Hardy

If you're going to see that $3 to $3.50, you're going to see it between May 1 and June 15. After that, you probably won't. That's the usual pattern.

Bill O'grady

Dell didn't invent the PC. It came very late to the party and is now the leader and it seems to be following the same pattern in consumer electronics.

Thomas Laming

We're in this holding pattern and it's not lifting.

Brooke Bingaman

The two pinnacles I had that I've reached were to catch a fish on my own pattern and to be published in a book. I'm happy I've done that.

Scott Sickau

But other licensees are interested as well. We hope to replicate that pattern throughout our properties.

David Goldberg

The [victim] lives in the vicinity, and there appears to be a pattern of some trouble and violence, which are causes for concern.

Justin Harmon

You can't have a pattern with him, because he swings at everything and he hits everything hard. Heck, I don't know. Sometimes you just hope he hits it at guys.

Aj Pierzynski