Orderly Quotes
187 Orderly quotes by 165 unique authors
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Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to…
— Ibn Khaldun
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Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must…
— Leonard Woolf
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My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world…
— Ina Garten
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I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes…
— M.C. Escher
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By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with…
— Ronald Reagan
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Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs].…
— Richard Allen Epstein
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Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a…
— Ronald Reagan
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Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm…
— Diana Trilling
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Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.
— Charles Wheelan
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It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in…
— Frederick Lenz
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But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and…
— Gerhard Richter
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There were two dawns that morning. One the orderly sunrise of God, followed by man's fireball at the base of that rocket.
— Gordon Baxter
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I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
— Richard Ford
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism,…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition,…
— Richard V. Allen
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A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.
— Isaac Asimov
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Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly…
— Roy Chapman Andrews
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times…
— Francis Bacon
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Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess…
— James J. Kilpatrick
Who Wrote These Orderly Quotes
165 authors contributed a total of 187 Orderly Quotes, led by these top contributors: