Best Arrangements Quotes
168 Arrangements quotes by 157 unique authors
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I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we…
— John Banville
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If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
— Hanif Kureishi
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If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like…
— Michel Foucault
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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a…
— John Updike
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To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market…
— Viktor Khristenko
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The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must…
— Saul Alinsky
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I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.
— Margaret Thatcher
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Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open…
— James Q. Wilson
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The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal;…
— James F. Cooper
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If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither…
— Amartya Sen
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Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do…
— A. R. Ammons
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There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel…
— Roy Haynes
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I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!
— Tommy Dorsey
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I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33,…
— Milton Friedman
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Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;…
— Strobe Talbott
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Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter,…
— Robert Owen
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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
— Oliver Lodge
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As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that…
— Bernie Worrell
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War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. Â There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. Â The…
— Jacque Fresco
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Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to…
— Antoine-Henri Jomini
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In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.
— Mariella Frostrup
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We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals
— Tommy Shaw
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only…
— Eberhard Weber
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