Haphazard – Quotes

Whatever else the Norman

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible. Edward Jenks

There is a haphazard

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking. Fanny Lewald

It seemed to me

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard. E. B. White

Deathlessness should be arrived

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a… haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog. E. B. White

Life itself is a

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair. Dorothy Day

You discover the goal of existence by living it. The present is the only time when you can evolve, experience the divine, expand your awareness, or reach enlightenment. But this cannot be a haphazard journey that falters and wanders off the path. It’s easy for that to happen when a crisis develops. Sudden losses and … Read more

Friendships do not grow

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion…. They begin haphazard. Christopher Morley

Story ideas, but it’s

Story ideas, but it’s also musing on stuff that I’m thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They’re kind of random and haphazard. Often I can’t find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don’t necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of … Read more

But amid much elegance

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect? Carl Sagan

For the first time

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden. … Read more