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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• To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Men, Trying, Cards

  james fitzjames stephen (1873). “liberty, equality, fraternity”, p.235

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• The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Mind, Principles

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.

  Carroll Quigley

  Believe, Men, Littles

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Past, Egypt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Past, People, Community

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• A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Men, Long

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