Best Haphazard Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Don’t live life anyhow, else you get anywhere. Plan your life somehow and you can get somewhere. A slow plan is better than no plan.”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Improvisation is terribly haphazard.”

Improvisation Haphazard

Author:Leo Ornstein

“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.”

Firsts Facts Eye Science Order Fall Lines Saws Fit First Time Garden Standing Chemistry Transformed Schemes Recipes Jungle Dutch Boyhood Haphazard Periodic Table Medley

Book:The Search

Source: The Search

“My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.”

Source: Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year

“The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.”

“[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.”

Universe Violent Haphazard

Author:Woody Allen

“I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.”

May Belief Flower Creatures Discovery Come Up Optimistic Haphazard Hopscotch

Author:Brad Leithauser

“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.”

“The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.”

Mind Country Fashion Organized Offensive Tidy Sloppy Country Life Haphazard Neat And Tidy Organized Mind

Author:Alan Brien

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

May Made States Done Forever Impossible Affair Conquest Haphazard Norman Conquest

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

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

Pleasure Goodness Seeking Doing Good Haphazard Pleasure Seeking

Author:Fanny Lewald

“Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.”

Men He Man Creatures Impulse Crude Haphazard

Author:John Arlott

“Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.”

“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?”

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“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 setbacks shake everyone up; those who keep moving forward are buoyed by knowing that their path cannot be destroyed, only interrupted.”

Source: Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges

“But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.”

Enough Light Order Clear Ideals Household Dishes Decency Disgrace Cleanliness Haphazard Reorganization

Author:Alice Munro

“In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).”

Family Break Conditions Policy Particular Broken Program Crisis Institutions Scope Recessions Explicit Haphazard Patchwork

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be [loud dive bar, small theatre, festival] is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.”

Kind Art Shows Fun Bits Creating Flow Theatre Bars Genre Range Loud Diverse Festivals Creating Something Haphazard

Author:Sarah Burton

“Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.”

Grows Friendship Growing Up Fashion Haphazard

Author:Christopher Morley

“I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.”

Littles Over It Anxious Haphazard

Author:Lena Dunham

“Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.”

Needs Doe Facts Interesting Creating Research Fake Haphazard

Author:John Hodgman

“If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.”

Ifs Way Feels Ends Chance Decision Team Members Structure Meetings One Way Discussion Dread Participation Arbitrary Chances Are Wasted Time Team Member Haphazard

Author:Martin Zwilling

“It's been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I've found this to be very true in my own life. If I'm lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day.”

Ifs Firsts Said Action Found Hours My Own Wake Up Lazy My Own Life Very True Rudders Haphazard

Author:Steve Pavlina

“[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket - it must be somewhere - with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds established methods of investigation.”

Looks Home Lost Taken Gun Towns Method Photograph Flight Shops Weekend Investigation Tickets Small Town Martians Memphis Haphazard Thoroughness

Author:Geoff Dyer

“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 architecture in my head.”

Thinking Way Kind I Can Ideas Stories Stuff Architecture Leading Me Musings Haphazard

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“I do not like a haphazard connection between the dances and the music.”

Connections Haphazard

Author:Lucinda Childs

“Donald Trump probably spends more time getting more things done than many people have any experience with, but yet he's the one undisciplined, he's the one that's haphazard, he's the one who's erratic, he's the one who's unpredictable.”

People Done Trump More Time Unpredictable Things Done Undisciplined Erratic Haphazard

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Trump is not haphazard. Trump has the ability to improvise at a rally or go off the prompter at some point.”

Ability Trump Haphazard

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“My so-called career is a haphazard thing.”

Careers Haphazard

Author:Paul McCartney

“No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.”

People Knows Causes Brain Expression Individuality Conception Chemicals Genes Soup Womb Modification Fluctuation Wiring Haphazard

Author:Steven Pinker

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

“Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.”

Affair Messy Haphazard

Author:Dorothy Day

“On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. "A Time to Break Silence," at Riverside Church”

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.”

Ends Whole Running Existence Quality Plans One Thing Shapes Whole Life Errands Haphazard

Book:Jurassic Park: A Novel

Source: Jurassic Park: A Novel

“February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.”

Writing Heart Shows Eye Earth Fall Black Race Tree Sadness Cry Tears Wind Six Spring Grieving Dry Wheels Bells Wet Shed Ink Falling Down Blackness February Puddles Pears Charcoal Haphazard Slush

Author:Boris Pasternak

“Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.”

Seems Fall Space Possibility Shapes Illusion Blue Fingers Block Streams Grain Pregnant Statues Marble Embedded Disorganized Haphazard

Author:Alan Moore

“It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.”

Men Firsts Age Spiritual Life Is Chance Prayer Morning Praying Mark Spiritual Life Decline Our Relationship Risen Early Morning Haphazard

Book:God's Workmanship: And, He Shall Glorify Me

Source: God's Workmanship: And, He Shall Glorify Me

“When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.”

Men Art War Order Results Clear Duty Authority Weak Fixed Officers Art Of War Haphazard Disorganization

Book:The Complete Art of War

Source: The Complete Art of War

“I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.”

Source: The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays

“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.”

Men Should Death Turns Fashion Fame Shells Initials Tortoises Haphazard Bogs

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I have a moment to myself, I'll sit down with my guitar and open my journal, and start kind of massaging things together, and see if a song takes shape. Or sometimes, I'll just be hanging out with my guitar and come up with a chord progression or a lick, and that'll sort of sit around for a while waiting to marry itself to some words. So it's sort of haphazard and it's like...junk culture. I go around finding shiny objects and I glue them together laughs.”

“Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child -- this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.”

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

“Poetry contains nothing haphazard.”

Haphazard

Author:William Empson

“Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.”

Heart Doe Body Loss Grace Sacrifice Produce Exercise Cat Weight Horse Bounds Your Body Admire Muscles Expenses Truck Lungs Circus Supple Haphazard Breweries

Author:Joseph Pilates

“A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.”

“...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"”

Men Said Business Plans Balance Strategy Marketing Preparation Budgets Organized Folly Ems Discouraged Introduction Sauce Parts Of Life Surveys Business Plan Haphazard

Author:Paul Newman

“I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.”

Ifs Firsts Faces Strong Design Garden Structure Plant Shoes Bones Seeds Unexpected Formal Crowded Interior Design Haphazard Layout

Author:Nancy Lancaster

“What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.”

Memories Family Kitchen Drawers Haphazard

Book:We Were the Mulvaneys

Source: We Were the Mulvaneys

“Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.”

“Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character names, and conceptions of God and was subjected to haphazard editing that left it with many contradictions, duplications and non-sequiturs.”

Different Character Religion Names Left Half Modern Style Contradiction Conception Scholar Biblical Editing Millennium Dialect Different Styles Haphazard Duplication

Book:The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined