#ranged

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#arranged #aware #came #continue #did

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#achieve #believes #defined #essentials #everything

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#constellations #head #his #into #made

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#arranged #classified #facts #general #knowledge

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#arranged #basis #bride #described #marriages

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#art #art college #asked #bailey #band

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#different #different meaning #differently #effects #meaning

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#economical #experience #order #physics

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ↗

— Karl Rove

#adams #arranged #hire #james #jefferson

I would separate marriages into rational and irrational and I would included both love and arranged marriages as irrational marriage. Rational marriage for me is when you can really understand by mind not by heart. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#love-marriage #love