Orderly Quotes

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

Love, Beautiful, Educated

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers

Action, Inaction, Chaotic

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

Life, Work, May

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead

Nature, Human, Aggressive

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, Time, Book

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

Nation, Peaceful, Perhaps

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

Democracy, Confusion, Quiet

I like things to be orderly.
David Lynch

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
David Hockney

Humanity, Lost, Thought

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

Best, Baseball, Off

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

Life, Work, May

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.
Sandra Bullock

Mind, Single, Everything

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
Xun Zi

Nature, Bad, Become

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

Life, Father, Brothers

I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.
Paula Deen

Nice, Try, Sometimes

My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.
Ina Garten

Mother, Job, Wanted

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
Wendell Willkie

Good, Live, Before

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.
Joshua Foer

Since, Natural, Logical

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.
David Bohm

Society, Mind, Help

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
Kate Atkinson

Life, Freedom, Nothing

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
Richard Ford

The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.
Richard V. Allen

Power, Leader, Team

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

Life, Love, Die

Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.
Erika Slezak

Job, Person, Whole

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

Alone, Englishman, Queue

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

Law, Place, Far

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.
Andrea Martin

Life, Love, Night

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

Rather, Write, Actually

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.
Arthur Levitt

Purpose, While, Face

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

Legal, Process, Issue

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