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Quotes About Arrangements

In particular the rules of logic tell us how to create, from the opening arrangement (the list of axioms), new arrangements (called "theorems").
~ Richard J. Trudeau
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
~ Mary Douglas
The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart.
~ Parker J. Palmer
It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.
~ Hillary Clinton
STAY ON THE RIGHT SIDE. SCHOOL IS STILL THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE. AS YOU KNOW TOO WELL, KAYLA, DEALS CAN BE DANGEROUS. TELL YOUR HEADMISTRESS SHE WILL SOMEDAY REGRET MAKING ARRANGEMENTS WITH THOSE SHE DOES NOT TRUST COMPLETELY.
~ Jen Calonita
My father will be meeting with Zara and Constantine later today." "Constantine?" I asked. "Zara's husband.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Marriage is full of such cut-and-dry arrangements, Rhonda thought,then felt that small ache she sometimes got at the back of her skull-the one that told her she might be alone forever, not a fate that she chose but rather a fate that seemed to have been chosen for her.
~ Jennifer McMahon
Without the outside context of a political war between faith and reason, Epicurus does not fear that any single point he might award to the religious will be used against him. Nor is he eager to have his followers shunning prayer or ritual in order to demonstrate publicly their disbelief. Outside the context of a political war between faith and reason, more nuanced arrangements may be safely undertaken.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
sixty-dozen arrangements
~ Amy Lane
When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
~ Oliver Kahn
Conceptually, I've always gravitated towards arrangements that weren't just presenting one idea. I like to look at my songs as having a main part, an interlude, and almost like another song at the end.
~ Tycho
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
~ Van Morrison
We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.
~ Mick Ralphs
Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements allow oil and gas investors to avoid paying certain corporate income taxes, but are not available to clean energy businesses.
~ Bernie Sanders
The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food.
~ Rob Mariano
For the hundredth time—or so it seemed to her—she considered the words to use. "Before we left Tar Valon I made arrangements, should anything happen to me, for your bond to pass to another." He stared at her, silent. "When you feel my death, you will find yourself compelled to seek her out immediately. I do not want you to be surprised by it.
~ Robert Jordan
We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.
~ Erich Fromm
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
~ A.R. Ammons
It would be idle to propose that the arrangements made in 1815 caused the terrible cataclysms of the twentieth century. But anyone who attempted to argue that what happened in Russia after 1917, in Italy and Germany in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, and in many other parts of central and southern Europe at various other moments of the last century had no connection with them would be exposing themselves to ridicule.
~ Adam Zamoyski
The first stage of widowhood is paperwork.
~ Adriana Trigiani
The news may encourage us to imagine that the roots of a nation's problems have their fundamental origins in criminality at the top and yet, though there is clearly a role for targeting individual rotten apples, there is an equally vital task in directing attention to the colourless yet far larger institutional failures that lie concealed within our political and social arrangements.
~ Alain de Botton
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
~ Don DeLillo
Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'.
~ Antony Flew
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
~ Louis Pasteur