Tidy Quotes - Page 7

• The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

  Garry Winogrand

  Trying, World, Neat

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• The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

  Tom Peters

  Mistake, Issues, Design

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• From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

  Ella Maillart

  Wind, Desire, Tides

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• Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

  Mal Peet

  Numbers, Tangled, Together

  Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited

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• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  Karl Shapiro

  Happiness, Laughter, Grief

  Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Karl Jay Shapiro, Henry Rago (1943). “Poetry”

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• In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

  Paul Tsongas

  Running, Taken, Simple

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• After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

  Alexander Dubcek

  War, Axes, Pearls

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• Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

  Robert Southwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.60

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• I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

  Tommy Rettig

  Years, Four, Bucks

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