Haphazard Quotes

• There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

  Fanny Lewald

  Pleasure Seeking, Goodness, Doing Good

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• Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

  Margot Fonteyn

  Trying, Patterns, Return

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

  Christopher Morley

  Friendship, Fashion, Growing Up

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• It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

  R. F. Delderfield

  Life, Patterns, Curious

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• You discover the goal of existence by living it. The present is the only time when you can evolve, experience the divine, expand your awareness, or reach enlightenment. But this cannot be a haphazard journey that falters and wanders off the path. It's easy for that to happen when a crisis develops. Sudden losses and setbacks shake everyone up; those who keep moving forward are buoyed by knowing that their path cannot be destroyed, only interrupted.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Loss, Journey

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.195, Harmony

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• It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.

  Todd Rundgren

  Night, People, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.

  Alice Munro

  Light, Order, Reorganization

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• I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.

  Lena Dunham

  Littles, Anxious, Over It

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Rain, Loss, Thinking

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• On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. "A Time to Break Silence," at Riverside Church

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Journey, Men, Compassion

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press

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• Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Character, Angel, Men

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• The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

  Alan Brien

  Country, Fashion, Organized Mind

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• True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Compassion

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

  Michael Crichton

  Running, Quality, Errands

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Jurassic Park: A Novel”, p.171, Ballantine Books

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• Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

  Leo Ornstein

  Improvisation

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• I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.

  Brad Leithauser

  Flower, Optimistic, Discovery

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• [The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.

  Woody Allen

  Violent, Universe

  "September", 1987.

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• What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Family, Memories, Kitchen

  Joyce Carol Oates (2001). “We Were the Mulvaneys”, p.18, Penguin

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• Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

  Jacques Barzun

  Ideas, Advice, Trying

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• My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Blessed, Mean

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.26, Discovery House

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• Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

  Dorothy Day

  Affair, Messy

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• Trump is not haphazard. Trump has the ability to improvise at a rally or go off the prompter at some point.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trump, Ability

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

  Edward Jenks

  Forever, Done, May

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.

  Boris Pasternak

  Spring, Fall, Sadness

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• In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).

  Kenneth Keniston

  Family, Broken, Program

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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