Rearranges Quotes

#1. Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.

Peter Drucker

#2. I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

Tom Jenkinson

#3. Things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.

Hanya Yanagihara

#4. I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Paul Simon

#5. Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#6. Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

Terry Pratchett

#7. The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.

Rebecca Solnit

#8. [She] smiles, too, and eats and drinks, and is happy, and outside the kitchen window the wind blows and the world shifts and crumbles and rearranges itself, and time goes on.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory.

Gary Numan

#10. The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.

Bernard Beckett

#11. Barrons breaks heads. Ryodan turns them inside out. Barrons fucks you up. Ryodan makes you fuck yourself up. He pushes buttons and rearranges things according to his own private, coolly sociopathic plan.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. They disconnect biblical truths from each other like a depraved artist who rearranges the pieces of a beautiful mosaic.

David K. Clark

#13. An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#14. It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

Thomas Aquinas

#15. Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.

Mason Cooley

#16. Ruth smiles, which rearranges the lines on her face. She inverts her parentheses and transforms commas into apostrophes. The pattern is that of a woman who has no regrets.

Julie Buxbaum

#17. Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

Sigmund Freud

#18. The disciple is one who, intent upon becoming Christ-like and so dwelling in his "faith and practice," systematically and progressively rearranges his affairs to that end.

Renovare

#19. Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.

G. Willow Wilson

#20. Music rearranges your molecular structure.

Carlos Santana

#21. Death almost always rearranges life, sometimes for the worse, many times for the better,

Tiffany Baker

#22. I turn back to them, trying to maintain control of my emotions, trying to keep the two of them from seeing that I'm shaking in sorrow and anger and hurt.

Jackson Pearce

#23. The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.

Donald A. Norman

#24. I hate to be categorized.

Martin Cruz Smith

#25. She turned to John to share the joke, and he was transfixed, looking into the catastrophe of her sagging, bleary-eyed face.

R.A. MacAvoy

#26. It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I was doing would probably be the last one I would get. I really never thought that I stacked up with the other girls.

Christie Brinkley

#27. [Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

Paul Valery

#28. It's a very sweet and often problematic situation where people feel like they know me and they're concerned for me. It creates these strange little intimate moments.

Mike Mills

#29. Only worry about things that are within your control

Jon Fitch