Rearranging Quotes - Page 2

• If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

  Michelle Sagara

  Heart, Internals, Organs

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Secret”, p.120, MIRA

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• If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Self, Long

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• It is easy to look at these waves, accomplishing so little and to think that no matter what efforts we put forth in our lives, all we're really doing is rearranging the sand grains in a beach that in essence never changes.

  Neal Stephenson

  Beach, Thinking, Essence

  "Quicksilver". Book by Neal Stephenson, 2003.

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• In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Photography, Hands, People

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• I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.

  William McDonough

  Trying, Ordinary, Levels

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make it my own, involves unearthing it, describing it, deploying it inform, and then rearranging it.

  Sarah Charlesworth

  Thinking, Symbolism, Deploying

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• For me, I don't want to live in a world where I am afraid of making the kind of art I want to make. The idea that I should be afraid of publicly ridiculing and mocking and chopping up and rearranging a giant corporation that intrudes on my life whether I want it to or not every day... The idea that I have to be afraid to do that is absurd to me.

  Mark Hosler

  Art, Ideas, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think our family is falling apart and getting destroyed. I just think it's rearranging itself in the way God meant it to be because it wasn't working how it was.

  Brooke Hogan

  Fall, Thinking, Way

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• I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.

  Bill Maher

  Tired, People, Might

  "Bill Maher: The Golden Goose Special". TV Movie, 1997.

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• Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

  Richard Price

  Years, Mind, Letters

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• There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

  Adam Hartung

  Innovation, Reorganization, Microsoft

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• After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.

  Tim Zuck

  Finishing, Theme

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• It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

  Luther Burbank

  Thinking, Order, People

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• I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn't learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God's injunction and Adam's loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. Hurry, they say, he'll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Mistake, Book, Character

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• Every copywriter knows what it is to struggle with a copy for hours, for days - fixing it, polishing it, rearranging it. We have all been quilty of leaving the headline until the last and the spending half and hour on it - or perhaps only ten minutes.

  John Caples

  Struggle, Leaving, Half

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• Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears. "It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed.

  Meg Cabot

  Blessed, Voice, Tears

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• Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Generosity, Giving, Waiting

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Seductive, Political

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• But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

  Rick Bragg

  Dream, Book, Years

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