Quotes About Orderly

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.

Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.

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.

My father used to say: Son if you are not bright you've got to be methodical (defusing argument when challenged and proved right)

Spencer is nearly as much of a neat freak as me!

I'm a very neat person.

I am very clean, not exactly a neat freak, and creative.

For a giddy moment Olivia wondered how that young man's pay was entered into the palace housekeeping ledger. His Highness's First Orderly of the Stool? Royal Stepping-stoolie?

The problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the times there were simply "ways", none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on. He had always admired his wife's idealism, her belief that the world could be made better, could be made orderly, could perhaps even be made perfect. For the first time, he wondered if the same held true for him

We need to underline the need for Britain to depart from the European Union in an orderly fashion.

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.'

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

Lenin's Personal life was extraordinarily dull. He dressed and lived like a middle-aged provincial clerk, with precisely fixed hours for meals, sleep, work and leisure. He liked everything to be neat and orderly.

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.

Nursing Home Orderly You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up. Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. Check out the name tag. You're in my world now, grandma.

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.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world," I said, "but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn't a mirror, it's an aspiration.

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.

Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

I try very hard to write in a very orderly and continual disciplined manner.

It's manifestly in everyone's interest if the U.K. leaves the E.U. in an orderly, friendly and constructive way.