Arrangements Quotes

• If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Want Something, Excuse, Enough

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• A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Constitution, States

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Views, Understanding, Alliances

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• Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

  Gerald Brenan

  Broken Heart, Two, People

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• The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject.

  William Blaikie

  Art, Powerful, Writing

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• Well, I think a handshake is something that honorable men do. Before we had contracts we had handshakes that expressed that we were making an arrangement that was based on our honor. And I don't think I can shake the hand of someone who shows and lacks honor by attacking a man's faith.

  Rand Paul

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

  Tony Judt

  Government, Opposites, Degrees

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• A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Choices, Design, Landscape

  Nan Fairbrother (1974). “The nature of landscape design: as an art form, a craft, a social necessity”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Nothing is new except arrangement.

  Will Durant

  Writing, Creativity, Originality

  Will Durant (2002). “Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

  Louis Pasteur

  Astrology, Nuclear, Form

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• I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Morning, Flower, Miracle

  1954 The Doors of Perception.

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• I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

  Richard Patrick

  Song, Writing, Perfect

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not stay out of this because it involved the struggle against communism. It was, therefore, necessary to make arrangements for the bringing together between Ljubljana and Zagreb of a motorized division, of an armored division, and of the grenadier division.

  Ugo Cavallero

  Struggle, Russia, Together

  "Diplomacy of Aggression" by Leonid Nikolaevich Kutakov (p. 110), 1970.

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• The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the joys and all the miseries, and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is only a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is. It can only make it ugly, it cannot beautify it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted, things will start going down rather than rising high.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beautiful, Deep Love

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• We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.

  Jeffrey Rowland

  Reading, Positivity, Odds Against You

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• What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Two

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• Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Body, Should, Stimulation

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• Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Latin, Believe, Superstitions

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• If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

  Bill Wyman

  Song, Ideas, People

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• We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks all others, the next outranks all but the first, and so on down the hierarchy. But the cat system is more like a wheel, with a high-ranking cat at the hub and the others arranged around the rim, all reluctantly acknowledging the superiority of the despot but not necessarily measuring themselves against one another.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Dog, Cat, Hierarchy

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2001). “The Tribe of Tiger”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.

  Gerda Lerner

  Meaningful, Moving, Thinking

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• Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Fuel

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.165, Xist Publishing

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• Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Loss, Simple, Essentials

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Success, Sensual, Energy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”

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• To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Opportunity, Solitude, Done

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.97

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