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Quotes About Arrangement

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.
~ Rick Perlstein
I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.
~ Louise Wilson
I'm known as tidy, I like to keep my stuff in order.
~ Joe Root
I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.
~ Bobby Davro
Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
~ Nick Lampson
It has a strange way of making sense," Ruth whispers. Mr. Bell nods. "The mis-arrangement of words suggests reincarnation. It suggests multiple, endless readings.
~ Samantha Hunt
Tomorrow I purpose to regulate my room.
~ Samuel Johnson
Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
~ Samuel Prout
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He had it all planned out, down to the end.
~ Sara Shepard
It began, as it often does, with a woman putting her ducks in a row.
~ Sarah Blake
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
Music is geometry in time.
~ Arthur Honegger
Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.
~ Hugh Blair
Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.
~ Zig Ziglar
On peut dire que tout est prédestiné, que tout est un arrangement extrêmement savant dont nous ne voyons qu'une toute petite partie. On peut dire aussi que tout est chaos, et je me heurterai à ce dilemme jusqu'au bout. (p. 166)
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Já tinha visto gangsters antes, é claro, mas nunca tinha trabalhado numa casa que era completamente mafiosa, onde acabei por conhecer pessoalmente verdadeiros wise guys, cujos nomes saíam nos jornais. (…) Também não posso dizer que fosse um arranjo desagradável; pelo menos desta vez sabia que os meus cozinheiros iam aparecer para trabalhar todos os dias, porque se não fossem voltavam para a prisão.
~ Anthony Bourdain
but things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him.
~ Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XLVI IT CANNOT BE ARRANGED
~ Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXXVII HOW THINGS WERE ARRANGED
~ Anthony Trollope
The father thought to himself that his younger girls were but children, and that the trouble of arranging their marriage portions might well be postponed a while. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. "That Moffat is a griping, hungry fellow," said the squire. "I suppose Augusta likes him; and, as regards money, it is a good match." "If Miss Gresham loves him, that is everything. I am not in love with him myself; but then, I am not a young lady.
~ Anthony Trollope
was it not all said and done and arranged with reference to his and her own popularity? When a man wants to be Prime Minister he has to submit to vulgarity, and must give up his ambition if the task be too disagreeable to him.
~ Anthony Trollope
The Duchess of Omnium had since declared that she also would go, and there were to be two carriages. But
~ Anthony Trollope
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
~ Aristotle