Haphazard Quotes
33 quotes by 30 authors
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It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life…
— Oswald Chambers
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When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers…
— Sun Tzu
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can…
— John Dewey
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Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I…
— Ani DiFranco
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Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such…
— Bertrand Russell
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Poetry contains nothing haphazard.
— William Empson
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Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles…
— Joseph Pilates
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of…
— Adam Zagajewski
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...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for…
— Paul Newman
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I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it…
— Nancy Lancaster
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What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in…
— Lynn Flewelling
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Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character…
— Steven Pinker
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It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.
— Jacques Barzun
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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
— Leo Ornstein
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It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.
— R. F. Delderfield
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It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the…
— Todd Rundgren
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For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the…
— Carrie P Snow
Who Wrote These Haphazard Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 33 Haphazard Quotes, led by these top contributors: