Orderly Quotes

• If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

  Jack Gantos

  Simple, Mind, Junk

  Jack Gantos (1999). “Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade”, p.19, Macmillan

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• To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

  Plato

  Love, Beautiful, Education

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• God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Atheism, Agnostic

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 25 Apr. 1929

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• Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Gustave Flaubert (2012). “Madame Bovary”, p.15, Random House

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• Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.

  Max Gunther

  Looks, Chaos, Dangerous

  Max Gunther (2010). “How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks”, p.129, Harriman House Limited

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• Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

  Will Rogers

  Hard Work, Acting, Action

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• For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. 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.'

  Arthur Compton

  Men, Majestic, Realization

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• Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

  Margaret Mead

  Human Nature, Aggressive, Aggression

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.134, Berghahn Books

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• Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

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

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• An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

  Adam Smith

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Light, Labyrinth

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• Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Life, Book, Logical

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• A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Peace, Malcontent

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Falling In Love, Trying, Legs

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Arthur H

  Majestic, Unfolding, Difficult

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• Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Law, Civilization

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• I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

  Lawrence Welk

  Brother, Father, Farmers

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

  George Mikes

  Form, Queues, Englishmen

  'How to be an Alien' (1946) p. 44

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• When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

  Joan Halifax

  Mind, Ease, Disorder

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• Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Men, Order

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.389

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• Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

  Molly Ivins

  Confusion, Democracy, Certain

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• The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Creator, Has Beens, Universe

  "De revolutionibus".

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• The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (1903*). “Essays of Montaigne”

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• The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

  Molly Ivins

  Confusion, Democracy, Beloved

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• Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

  John Tuzo Wilson

  Lying, Science, Order

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