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Quotes About Arrangement

As if sometimes the world really did amount to a quiet arrangement.
~ Carl Phillips
I know better than most men that she is a conglomerate of skin, blood, tissue, bones, muscles and nerves, but only look how nicely arranged.
~ Carla Kelly
There is no mechanical impossibility, it is merely the fact that there are so many more possible positions of the various powder grains that will give a grey appearance, as compared to the much smaller number of configurations in which the grains are well ordered.
~ Carlo Cercignani
Bertrand Russell describes the same idea thus: "the raw material out of which the world is built up is not of two sorts, one matter and the other mind; it is simply arranged in different patterns by its inter-relations: some arrangements may be called mental, while others may be called physical.
~ Carlo Rovelli
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.
~ Carol Shields
Norville invited him in the first place.
~ Carola Dunn
I am so good when I have time to prepare.
~ Caroline Kepnes
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
~ Casey Stengel
all right everyone, line up alphebetically according to your hight
~ Casey Stengel
Pero no siempre era posible estar en el lugar que le correspondía a cada uno.
~ George R.R. Martin
point had been reached, the host, his business done, took his guests back to town in the automobile upon which he had not as yet paid a cent, dropping them
~ George Randolph Chester
A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
~ Mikhail Glinka
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
~ Pierre Corneille
Let all things be done decently and in order.
~ Bible
Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.
~ Anonymous
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
~ Carlos Fuentes
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
~ Henry Ford
Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.
~ Blaise Pascal
When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly of castration.
~ J.R. Ward
The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from now till your hand is paralyzed, for THERE will be your work for GOD, since you can not work for God in other ways, and would not, & don't know how, or bend that way, from habit, & from talent in the use & signification & arrangement of the Word.
~ Jack Kerouac
Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
~ Joseph A. Schumpeter
In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
~ Otto Wallach