Quotes About Orderly

#1. My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation.

Laurie Graham

#2. Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically ...

Elizabeth Kenny

#3. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

#4. It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.

Hugo Black

#5. When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.

Frederick Lenz

#6. A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. Another was a passion for secrets...

Ian McEwan

#7. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

Lois Lowry

#8. Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

Gustave Flaubert

#9. my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

David Foster Wallace

#11. It takes cognitive toil and literary dexterity to pare an argument to its essentials, narrate it in an orderly sequence, and illustrate it with analogies that are both familiar and accurate.

Steven Pinker

#12. 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 be a loser. It's as simple as that.

Jack Gantos

#13. Hence it is evident that if men are pious, good and orderly, they will bear the sword for the protection of the innocent, according to the will of God, and for a terror to evil-doers, according as God has appointed and ordained.

Balthasar Hubmaier

#14. Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Paul Theroux

#15. The choice is not between the current crisis and blissful isolation. The choice is between the current crisis and an orderly, managed system of mass migration. You can have one or the other. There is no easy middle ground

Patrick Kingsley

#16. Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

Arthur Levitt

#17. There is nothing more orderly than a cemetery.

Eduardo Galeano

#18. 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

#19. Since there is no orderly way to liquidate the federal debt, we must brace for a payment crisis.

Hans F. Sennholz

#20. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Xun Zi

#21. She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time insists on passing and as it does, grief changes but does not go away.

Ann Hood

#22. I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of 'art' (p. 213).

Edith Schaeffer

#23. I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

Richard Ford

#24. As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

Cees Nooteboom

#25. A few machines dance in the air, an orderly has to be sedated, and suddenly you're Freddy freakin' Krueger.

Jennifer Harlow

#26. If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe
without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.

H.L. Mencken

#27. The Soul's path is not straight and orderly; it's windy, often bumpy, and has an incredible view.

Elisa Romeo

#28. God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Albert Einstein

#29. To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Plato

#30. Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

Gore Vidal

#31. Leadership is not something that is added, but rather built in the DNA of creation, an orderly creation (1 Corinthians 12:12; 14:38-45; Titus 1:5; Genesis 1; 2). The real question is whether humanity has high-jacked Leadership?

Jonah Books

#32. 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 aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

Leonard Woolf

#33. How I looked forward to having my house neat and orderly again.

Janette Oke

#34. The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Molly Ivins

#35. Everywhere, as we go about our small business, we must discern the fingerprints of the gigantic plan, the orderly and inexorable routine with neither beginning nor end, in which death is but a preface to another birth, and birth the certain forerunner of another death.

Christopher Morley

#36. The inner climate stamps each individual with its character. Every life-form has its own individual anomaly point of health, which makes the orderly reproduction of the species possible. This also explains why the world of parasites increases with fever.

Viktor Schauberger

#37. An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#38. There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.

Gretchen Rubin

#39. As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.

Sara Zarr

#40. Italians are genetically incapable of standing in an orderly line, so much so that the movie theater seems more crowded than it actually is.

Petra F. Bagnardi

#41. We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.

Jerzy Kosinski

#42. A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

George Mikes

#43. It is amazing how much both happiness and efficiency can be increased by the cultivation of an orderly mind, which thinks about a matter adequately at the right time rather than inadequately at all times.

Bertrand Russell

#44. And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

Isaac Asimov

#45. 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 commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

Ronald Reagan

#46. I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

Mary Roach

#47. Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas .

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#48. Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happenstance; hope and dread sprawl on top. Our days and nights are their endless orgies.

Catherynne M Valente

#49. 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 was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

Ina Garten

#50. The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion.

Paul Singer

#51. Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

J Harlen Bretz

#52. From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.

Philip Johnson

#53. The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity.

Michel De Montaigne

#54. My filing system is messy but orderly.

Tony Benn

#55. Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.

Lois Lowry

#56. The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

Shirley Hufstedler

#57. I could at times be overly emotional, but was lucky to have the kind of orderly mind that is good at categorizing things

Julia Child

#58. I imagine there are orderly, well-organized Scanners in the world, but there can't be very many of them. It's far more common to hear a Scanner mumbling, Now, where did I put that lizard?

Barbara Sher

#59. I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

Lawrence Welk

#60. 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 an orderly life, I guess. " Really stumped, I offer, "He ... ate a balanced diet.

Bret Easton Ellis

#61. 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 essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

David Wroblewski

#62. Many people believe that the free market, despite some admitted advantages, is a picture of disorder and chaos. Nothing is "planned," everything is haphazard. Government dictation, on the other hand, seems simple and orderly; decrees are handed down and they are obeyed.

Murray N. Rothbard

#63. As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

Alessandro Baricco

#64. I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...

Alexandre Dumas

#65. She likes things orderly and predictable and feels secure when her time is mapped out well in advance.

A.S.A Harrison

#66. All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

Confucius

#67. Feynman resented the polished myths of most scientific history, submerging the false steps and halting uncertainties under a surface of orderly intellectual progress, but he created a myth of his own.

James Gleick

#68. For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide
laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course
it was striving against the stream.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#69. David [Cameron] has been an outstanding friend and partner on the global stage and, based on our conversation, I'm confident that the UK is committed to an orderly transition out of the EU.

Barack Obama

#70. I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic.

Richard Dawkins

#71. 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 habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.

Ellen Hopkins

#72. Excuse my wandering.
How can one be orderly with this?
It's like counting leaves in a garden,
along with the song-notes of partridges,
and crows.
Sometimes organization
and computation become absurd.

Rumi

#73. Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

Joshua Foer

#74. People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.

George Albert Wells

#75. Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.

Harold Percival

#76. Perhaps death represents the severing of the living organism's connection with the orderly quantum realm, leaving it powerless to resist the randomizing forces of thermodynamics.

Jim Al-Khalili

#77. Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Will Rogers

#78. The presumption of divine intervention in human affairs violates my sense of an orderly and comprehensible universe.

Millard Kaufman

#79. We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

Robert Heilbroner

#80. I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.

Robert Pinsky

#81. When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Annabelle Selldorf

#82. 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, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

Richard V. Allen

#83. Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

Kate Atkinson

#84. Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Bill Veeck

#85. Build slowly if you must, but by all means, build. In pursuing an orderly process [of Bible study], you follow a pattern established by God himself. The God of the Bible is a God of order.

Jen Wilkin

#86. It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Michel De Montaigne

#87. The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#88. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

Arthur H. Compton

#89. Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it reminded us citizens that our domain of orderly domesticity was graced by the dominant power of our 'Dominus.'

Rick Moranis

#90. Once sufficient concentration and merging have taken place, the winners hope to be free to establish a more orderly form of competition between themselves, one where they create differential advantages for their stores, so that 'their shoppers' no longer see one store as substitutable for any other.

Greg Thain

#91. Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

Gary Snyder

#92. 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 of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

Anne Rice

#93. When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

Julia Cameron

#94. The superhero, his underwear bagging at the seat and knees, is just a country boy at heart, tutored to perceive all human action as good or bad, orderly or dynamic, and so doesn't know whether to shit or fly.

Robert Coover

#95. The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#96. Writers should be orderly and predictable in their lives, so that they can be ferocious and sinister in their work.

Flaubert-G

#97. Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.

Thomas Jefferson

#98. Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

Erika Slezak

#99. Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.

David Lack

#100. I like things to be orderly.

David Lynch