Regularity Quotes

• Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fitness, Perseverance, Exercise

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• I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

  Thomas Gainsborough

  Time, Oil, Enemy

  Letter to a patron, in John Hayes 'Thomas Gainsborough' (1980) p. 14

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• Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Punctuality, Virtue

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• To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Real, Dark

  "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium" by Albert Einstein, www.einsteinandreligion.com. 1941.

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• The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

  Carl Sagan

  Force, Predictability, Universe

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.

  Albert Einstein

  Independent, Men, Religion

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

  Claire McCaskill

  Party, Trying, Welcome

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

  John Malkovich

  Grateful, Failing, Given

  "Stage acting? It's just too hard". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2005.

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• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Pope Paul VI

  Art, Lust, Crystals

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• What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

  Lynn Steen

  Knowledge, Math, Patterns

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• Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

  Thomas Fuller

  Memories, Order, Complaining

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• Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

  Charles Sturt

  Block, Rocks, Exposed

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.27

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• The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

  Edward Hoagland

  God, Dying, Earth

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.

  Earl Nightingale

  Law, Strange, Harmony

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• I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Thinking, Adequate

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.440, Psychology Press

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• Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Stuff, Wells

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• I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

  Sinclair Lewis

  Inspiration, Impossible, Week

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• I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

  Jose Saramago

  Gmos, Receiving, Habit

  "A Writer's Progress: An Interview with Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Novelist José Saramago". Interview with Anna Klobucka, masshumanities.org. Spring 2002.

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• Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Reality, Ingredients, Chaos

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.289, Harvard University Press

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• Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

  William Banting

  Men, Order, Years

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.10

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• No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

  Edward Sapir

  Symbolism, Important, World

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter

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• The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

  Carl Sagan

  Everyday, Events, Degrees

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.120, GENERAL PRESS

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• You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.
  [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

  Robert Bunsen

  Elements, Periodic Table, Lack Of Confidence

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• Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Science, Law

  Immanuel Kant, David Walford, Ralf Meerbote (2003). “Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

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