Orderly Quotes

187 Orderly quotes by 165 unique authors

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,â€ I said, â€œbut 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
While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular… — William James
A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius. — Chester Barnard
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our… — E. M. Forster
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by… — Mark Twain
When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question. — Annabelle Selldorf
My filing system is messy but orderly. — Tony Benn
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost -… — David Wroblewski
The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of an orderly home,… — Helen Andelin
The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies… — Gordon W. Allport

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