Orderly's Quotes

#1. Now Bobby was sitting behind the reception desk in a peach-colored orderly's uniform, and he didn't look so tough. He also didn't look all that happy to see me. Probably didn't help that his laminated nametag said BOOBY.

Kami Garcia

#2. Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book.

Jim Crace

#3. I'm a neat freak ... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Jann Wenner

#4. I know now, what I didn't then, that affection can't always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.

Magda Szabo

#5. A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Eric Hoffer

#6. Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

Margaret Cavendish

#7. I'm not very good at giving people orderly explanations of things.

Haruki Murakami

#8. There were other houses that always brought images of an orderly life, kitchens with plain sideboards, old windows, the comforts of marriage in their common form, which at times surpassed everything - breakfast in the morning, conversations, late hours, and nothing that suggested excess or decay.

James Salter

#9. The reason for this is, that what we call thought (1) is itself an orderly thing, and (2) can only be applied to material, i.e. to perceptions or experiences, which have a certain degree of orderliness.

Erwin Schrodinger

#10. Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

Rudolf Arnheim

#11. You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident.

Michael Lewis

#13. Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.

Edward O. Wilson

#14. We believe that people should wait their time, and people should be able to be accepted here - over a million a year - in an orderly process, not a disorderly process, and that we should not be rewarding those who violate the law, and making even harder for those who try to comply with the law.

Jeff Sessions

#15. Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

Barton Gellman

#16. A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

Abraham Maslow

#17. 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, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

Zygmunt Bauman

#18. The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

Lewis Tappan

#19. 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

#20. Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

John Tuzo Wilson

#21. When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

Joan Halifax

#22. Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.

Max Gunther

#23. Happiness depends on sound sleep, orderly bowels and regular meals.

Matthew Fort

#24. Lenin's Personal life was extraordinarily dull. He dressed and lived like a middle-aged provincial clerk, with precisely fixed hours for meals, sleep, work and leisure. He liked everything to be neat and orderly.

Orlando Figes

#25. There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

Heraclitus

#26. My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.

Joyce Carol Oates

#27. Cooking was not a chore for Tengo. He always used it as a time to think - about everyday problems, about math problems, about his writing, or about metaphysical propositions. He could think in a more orderly fashion while standing in the kitchen and moving his hands than while doing nothing.

Haruki Murakami

#28. There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

Helen Keller

#29. 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 any of us.

Diana Trilling

#30. The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

H.G.Wells

#31. We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.

Wendell Willkie

#32. Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions ... Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

Ellen Hunnicutt

#33. We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people ... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.

Calvin Coolidge

#34. Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

Jeff Hawkins

#35. Everything she did had a purpose, and though she believed she was keeping her life orderly in this way, she now realized that it had been a mistake. It

Nicholas Sparks

#36. I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him (what would seem so necessary for the first Christian theologian) that of lucidity and orderly exposition.

C.S. Lewis

#37. If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.

John Quincy Adams

#38. Geese were orderly beings, with principles and systems, whose existence denied all superiority of individual over individual of the same species (176).

Alejo Carpentier

#39. So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown hither and thither by wild gusts of life from every quarter is now methodical and orderly and flung with a purpose
so it seems.

Virginia Woolf

#40. Of God in my life. I surrender my mind, my heart, my need for safety, and my need for rational explanations and orderly instructions to God's will for me. I trust that all that is in my life is as it should be. I release

Caroline Myss

#41. Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy

Jennifer Gold

#42. We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

Jose Serrano

#43. Chaos is the true state of the universe anyway." "My universe was fairly orderly before all this." "It was only an illusion.

Julie Moffett

#44. What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.

Henry David Thoreau

#45. No. I will remain because I have been accustomed for thirty years to go and take the orderly word of the King, and to have it said to me, 'Good evening, d'Artagnan,' with a smile I did not beg for!

Alexandre Dumas

#46. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.

Lois Lowry

#47. The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.

Tyler Cowen

#48. Death is a part of the orderly process of human life. There is nothing as final as extinction.

James Morris Robinson

#49. Maybe reason is neater and more orderly, but nonsense is freeing.

Jessica Khoury

#50. Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.

Natalie Goldberg

#51. Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

Maya Angelou

#52. Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

Iwane Matsui

#53. Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Alan Moore

#54. In fact, for all of us it is this open-hearted affirmation that my life is the same as yours that moves us forward much faster than when we believe that others' lives are orderly and peaceful and only ours is chaotic and full of bumps.

Virginia H. Pearce

#55. To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#56. There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].

Harlan Ellison

#57. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

Julia Cameron

#58. It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion.

Frederick Lenz

#59. 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 in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be - it isn't a mirror, it's an aspiration.

Jasper Fforde

#60. We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

Duong Van Minh

#61. Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality.

Kitaro Nishida

#62. After spending months living in the orderly dorms of Wallingford, where they give you a Saturday detention if your room doesn't pass semi-regular inspections, I feel the old conflicting sense of familiarity and disgust.

Holly Black

#63. Personal tranquility consists in the orderly structuring of the mind, which occurs whenever a person engages in the exquisite practice of contemplating personal experiences, harmonizing time spent with other people, reading great books, and working on self-improvement.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#64. The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules.

Steven Pinker

#65. Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

Charles Wheelan

#66. Polite conversation followed rules. Topics were sequential, orderly, and flowed from one to the next like a gentle current when all those conversing were skilled.

Kresley Cole

#67. In a world where time is a sense, like sight or like taste, a sequence of episodes may be quick or may be slow, dim or intense, salty or sweet, causal or without cause, orderly or random, depending on the prior history of the viewer.

Alan Lightman

#68. So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.

David Letterman

#69. Some day (when we have enough spiritual growth) we will come to see that the seemingly disjointed happenings, the apparent accidents, are really part of an orderly pattern.

Emmet Fox

#70. The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system.

Edwin Land

#71. Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

Nelson Mandela

#72. While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#73. Dr. Albert Frock: Well, how goes the gradual extinction of the human race, Lieutenant?
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: I'm doing what I can to keep it orderly.

Douglas Preston

#74. 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 procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#75. Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#76. But you can't go back now? To that orderly, harmonious, intimate place?'
He thought about this, though there was no need to. 'That place doesn't exist anymore,' he said quietly.

Haruki Murakami

#77. He looked for a job, and the job that he found was that of an orderly in a hospital, on the night shift, where his work was emptying bed pans, wrapping up dead bodies, and doing all the other things which orderlies have to do.
You never met a more emancipated man.

William Stringfellow

#78. Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

Adriana Trigiani

#79. Very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

Cynthia Ozick

#80. An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

Adam Smith

#81. A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

Isaac Asimov

#82. All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#83. Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for the sixteen-year-olds of this world.

John Knowles

#84. Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s.

Kedar Joshi

#85. My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.

Victoria Chang

#86. Life isn't the orderly black-and-white business we'd prefer it to be. It's messy and complicated and horribly blurred around the edges. All we can ever do is make the best of it. And maybe grab at those fleeting chances of happiness.' 'But never at the expense of anyone else's

Erica James

#87. All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

Kate Zambreno

#88. It appears that there are two different 'mechanisms' by which orderly events can be produced: the 'statistical mechanism' which produces 'order from disorder' and the new one, producing 'order from order'.

Erwin Schrodinger

#89. ...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly.

George Orwell

#90. I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

Paula Deen

#91. Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.

Mark Strong

#92. Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Charles Caleb Colton

#93. A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

Dale Ludwig

#94. The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

Michel De Montaigne

#95. Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Henry Ward Beecher

#96. Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.

Lewis Mumford

#97. For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.

Andrea Martin

#98. Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.

Helen Exley

#99. They are, reluctantly or enthusiastically, accepting the idea that humans are as much an accident of nature as a product of orderly development. But

Bill Bryson

#100. We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.

Johannes Kepler