Sorting Quotes

• We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

  E. B. White

  Running, Wine, Long

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

  Sarah Zettel

  Work, Ideas, Stories

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• When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

  Mark Nepo

  Energy

  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.

  David Hemmings

  Littles, Disaster

  "Fictional character: Thomas". "Blow-Up", 1966.

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• I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.

  Barack Obama

  Habit, Figures, Filing

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference", November 14, 2016.

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• By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ambition, Gryffindor, Hogwarts

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• The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.

  Robert Adams

  Letting Go, Hurt, Simple

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• Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Brave, Gryffindor

  J. K. Rowling, “Sorting Hat's Song (Book 1)”

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• Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Mind, Gryffindor

  J. K. Rowling, “Sorting Hat's Song (Book 1)”

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• You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.

  J. K. Rowling

  Toil, Loyal, Might

  J. K. Rowling, “Sorting Hat's Song (Book 1)”

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• Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Trying, Sorting Out

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2015). “Stories and Prose Poems”, p.185, Macmillan

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• Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Trying, Sorting Out

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• After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.

  John Lennon

  Order, Should Have, Views

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

  Charles Handy

  Responsibility, Substitutes, Efficient

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, p.10, Harvard Business Press

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• But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Sorting Out, Messages

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• In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

  Helen Prejean

  Government, Feelings, Sorting Out

  Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.21, Vintage

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• Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Defining Ourselves

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• I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

  Robert Smith

  Adults, Way, Photograph

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• I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

  Janet Fitch

  People, Water, Desire

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account." "Really?" "It did for me," said Harry. He had never told any of his children that before, and he saw the wonder in Albus's face when he said it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Choices, Gryffindor

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• She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.

  A. S. Byatt

  Stars, Dark, Moon

  A.S. Byatt (2011). “Ragnarok: the End of the Gods”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Block, Fall

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• One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Cost, Done

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• Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

  Bob Wise

  Wise, Teacher, Children

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• A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.

  Laurent A. Daloz

  Education, People, Feelings

  Laurent A. Daloz (1986). “Effective Teaching and Mentoring: Realizing the Transformational Power of Adult Learning Experiences”, Jossey-Bass

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