Orderly Quotes

187 Orderly quotes by 165 unique authors

[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both… — Denis Johnson
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that… — Virginia Woolf
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. — Ashleigh Brilliant
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of… — Atul Gawande
...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves… — Neal Stephenson
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the… — Confucius
Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue… — Greg L. Bahnsen
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious,… — H P Lovecraft
The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly… — Connie Willis
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an… — David Wroblewski
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on… — David Almond
So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was… — Bret Easton Ellis
If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll… — Jack Gantos
Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan… — Alistair Maclean
It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth… — H. Rider Haggard
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the… — George Saunders
...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too,… — Mary Oliver
Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order. — Gary Snyder
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people… — Jasper Fforde
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. — Alan Moore
Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only… — Ellen Hopkins
Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior… — Anne Rice
Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would… — Lois Lowry
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Life is too complicated not to be orderly. — Martha Stewart

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