Ritualized Patterns Quotes & Sayings

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. — Horace

Q is like a stupid Internet Troll; he makes some strawman accusation against Picard, Picard refutes his argument with logic and reason, and Q just changes the terms of the argument, all the while enjoying the attention he's getting. But does anyone create alt.q.die.die.die? No, of course not. Life is so fucking unfair. — Wil Wheaton

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations. — Rollo May

In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one. — Nick Harkaway

And then I realized that whatever we did, it wouldn't feel like it did before. — Daniel Gottlieb

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical. — Alia Shawkat

In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else. — Evan Esar

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. — Ryan Lilly

Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. — Anonymous

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are. — Rajneesh

The brain does much more than recollect. It compares, synthesizes, analyzes, generates abstractions. We must figure out much more than our genes can know. That is why the brain library is some ten thousand times larger than the gene library. Our passion for learning, evident in the behaviour of every toddler, is the tool for our survival. Emotions and ritualized behaviour patterns are built deeply into us. They are part of our humanity. But they are not characteristically human. Many other animals have feelings. What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behaviour patterns of lizards and baboons. We are, each of us, largerly responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves. — Carl Sagan

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc. — Aristotle.

The story is told that when Joe was a child his cousins emptied his Christmas stocking and replaced the gifts with horse manure. Joe took one look and bolted for the door, eyes glittering with excitement. 'Wait, Joe, where are you going? What did ol' Santa bring you?' According to the story Joe paused at the door for a piece of rope. 'Brought me a bran'-new pony but he got away. I'll catch 'em if I hurry.' And ever since then it seemed that Joe had been accepting more than his share of hardship as good fortune, and more than his share of shit as a sign of Shetland ponies just around the corner, Thoroughbred stallions just up the road. — Ken Kesey

Love is simultaneous mutual regulation, wherein each person meets the needs of the other, because neither can provide for his own. (208) — Thomas Lewis

Trey cocked one brow at her. "Do I not get a say in this?"
"She patted his arm. "Of course you do. Just note that if your opinion is different from mine, it will be disregarded. — Suzanne Wright