Arranged Quotes
241 Arranged quotes by 216 unique authors
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
— Carl Sagan
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The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged…
— Jerry Saltz
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well…
— Alan Watts
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness…
— Virginia Woolf
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Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at…
— Cormac McCarthy
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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They…
— Banksy
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You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional…
— Isaac Asimov
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There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I…
— Philip K. Dick
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The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in…
— Voltaire
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She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was…
— Robin McKinley
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Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way,…
— Cornelia Funke
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All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll…
— Annie Dillard
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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate…
— George Orwell
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Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me an inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my last nerve.” The…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely…
— Jane Austen
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their…
— Brennan Manning
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I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm,…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
— Alan Watts
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Jim eyed me for a couple of seconds, then got off the bed and went to curl up on the pile of blankets I'd arranged…
— Katie MacAlister
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You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your…
— Judith McNaught
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The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and…
— A. S. Byatt
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