Arranged Quotations

I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women.

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.

The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.

I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it.

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred billion nerve cells, probably a hundred trillion connections. It's just mind-boggling to think of all the different ways in which they're arranged in a baby's head.

In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.

On my way out here, I was writing all the way on the plane, ... and as soon as I got to San Diego, I arranged with the symphony to find an old practice room in their basement. It's better than two-thirds completed. I'd say four-fifths.

I was several times at the White House and once I arranged for a chamber group of the Boston Symphony to play at the White House.

Nine-eleven made me a more emotional person. It arranged people's priorities.

Should you or any member of your staff require additional information concerning this matter, an oral briefing will be arranged for you at your convenience,

Leonard Feather... was the one who arranged for me to come to London to work for the BBC, and we remained friends until Leonard passed away in 1994.

For years healthcare has been moving away from the inpatient care trends that our current facility was designed around. Outpatient services at SCMC (e.g. physical therapy, outpatient surgery, CT scans) have increased 33 percent over the past five years. The new facility's floor plan is arranged to accommodate this continuing shift in services.

He was Mr. Clean; he was every woman's dream. All his glasses were always perfectly arranged and the cabinets were spotless. His son said that if something was used that night, he would have cleaned it.

He was brought into my office and so badly wanted to meet Shaquille O'Neal. I arranged that the next time Shaq was here. I befriended him then. He and Shaq are so much a like. Their games are not all that similar ... but as far as them being likeable and smiling, they are very much alike.

God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.

Henry McCloskey, Jr, arranged the first initial meeting. And we met and we discussed, for the first time in my life, reproductive rights." ()

People look at marriage through a romantic haze, but it's actually a business contract. Couples need to look beyond the big day and the meringue dress and the honeymoon in an exotic location. I think arranged marriages have a lot going for them because expectations aren't so high. There isn't the assumption that things will be automatically wonderful.

Jimmy arranged to buy the film rights to the book. He wanted to meet her and interview her in December, and, of course, we had to go with him.

I think it's quite nicely arranged around our cultural center this year, and I think that's fine. People still will see the stores as they park and walk through downtown, going to and from the festival. There will be plenty of traffic that day. We'll see how it goes this year.

I thought with fury of the wonderful American orchestras that cared nothing for my music; of the critics who repeated for the hundredth time, 'Beethoven is a great composer,' while balking violently at new works; of the managers who arranged long tours for artists playing the same hackneyed programs fifty times over.

Transplants should be arranged in accordance with law, and the general thinking behind it should be to save people's lives first.

We've discussed that, we are hoping very much that a visit can be arranged as soon as convenient but no date has yet been fixed,

We have always wanted to fix a meeting and this has been arranged for Friday. Shell have treated the private investor very badly indeed. There are a considerable number of private investors in Royal Dutch Petroleum who have not taken up the offer.

You can change dynamic elements and layout so not only does one person get a unique offering but it's also arranged differently.

We have a team arranged to go tomorrow (Saturday) or Sunday.

We were looking for new markets to expand to and I knew about the Bartlesville Community Center so we arranged something, ... It's a beautiful theater. I'm really happy for us to have our show here. And it will be the same show that we have performed in New York, so Bartlesville won't go away disappointed.

There are some private meetings being arranged by some of the companies in town that they want to invite particular delegates to.

Yes, many people in rural parts of India are very orthodox and have arranged marriages. But I won't - I want to fall madly in love with someone and be whisked off my feet.

When I die, I have arranged to have a microchip in my tombstone, which will be solar- powered. It will play the noise of dozens of people weeping and moaning over me.

We arranged a meeting in Los Angeles with big name stars, but I had to drop the idea. I wanted to film in the local Soweto dialect that only Soweto youth can speak and believed that shooting in any other language would dilute the impact of the film.

We're trying to determine who the two men were who arranged to have the vehicle picked up and crushed.

We want resistance to be arranged and organized.

We bought a small house in Boston and we got it set up and had everything perfectly arranged until we realized we really only had one seat in the house that had sufficient light for reading and every night there was a battle of who could race to this chair faster with a reading book and I was always losing being the smallest. So we really started a quest to look for an ultimate reading light.

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.

When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.

As the direct result of the terrorist attacks, the arranged liquidity facility will not be completed and, under prevailing economic conditions, other private financing alternatives are not available,

The skylights are arranged in a way that won't make it difficult for swimmers to see.

The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.

The word 'arrested,' this is semantics. This was all arranged in advance. I was voluntarily processed.

It was all done at the same time. We sort of arranged the whole thing and cut it in half. A good example is an artist who does two canvases. He paints an abstract painting and then splits them. He shows the public the first piece and has them get used to that first piece. Then he gets the second piece and lets them get used to it, and then he puts them together and lets them see how they make sense together. So they make sense separately, but they also make sense together.

Underwater, there are arranged marriages. There's no love.

As long as we don't undermine the integrity of the lease itself and the deal that we've arranged with the construction agreement, then I don't think anyone would have an issue with it.

They say a humanitarian disaster is looming in the capital unless some kind of cease-fire is arranged and humanitarian supplies can be brought in.

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.

Our diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning .

This appears to be a typical drop house, where loads of aliens were kept. They are held for a while, until relatives pay whatever fee was arranged at the border to ransom them. Sometimes they're held against their will when smugglers raise the amount.

A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.

I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens.

The newspapers knew there was no basis to name Ashley but arranged the articles and pictures in such a way that readers would identify him. There is no truth whatever in these allegations. Ashley Cole will not tolerate this kind of cowardly journalism or let it go unchallenged.

Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.

They'd come all the way from Korea, so we arranged for some private instruction.

He told me he was in his hotel, had chest pains, the normal symptoms. The hotel arranged for an ambulance to come.

He's on the plane. He has medical treatment arranged in Miami so he should be getting to the hospital soon.

I put the house I share with my partner, Eric Webb, into a trust to keep it out of harm's way, legally. And I arranged to have the Jewel Box Theater cleared of liability. But the Jewel Box owners weren't convinced. They didn't want to be involved in anything that had been found illegal in a court.

They've just been so wonderful. They arranged everything on both ends.

They arranged for me to go to The Royal Academy, to study with one of the best life drawing professors in the world. That's how I learned.

The four executives arranged a complex scheme to cook the books at AIG. The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.

These proceedings were commenced because these newspapers published false and offensive articles designed to tell readers that Ashley had behaved in what the News of the World described as a 'perverted' way with other professional footballers. The newspapers knew there was no basis to name Ashley but arranged the articles and pictures in such a way that readers would identify him.

As we are Japan-based carrier, planes usually depart from Japan in the morning and come back to Japan in the evening on a common schedule. But for Korean travelers, we arranged planes staying overnight in Korean airports and departing from Korea in the morning.

They are the first two people I want to speak to, ... I've arranged to meet Hugh on Monday and I want to see Steve as soon as possible. It's likely that the support team will come from among the professional coaches we've got in Scotland already.

It's essentially a dish with 60 electrodes arranged in a dish at the bottom,

We were probably going to have to go by bus, or whatever alternative means that Via Rail arranged for us, if they were going to.

It was a very well planned and arranged operation. The deception ? the number of people and the money ? is massive.

I am a bit O.C.D. I have a colour-coordinated bookcase. The books are arranged by the colour of the spine. It looks cool, but people come in and think I am slightly mental.

I don't think for a long time my parents even knew I was wrestling, even though they had arranged it. I wasn't getting those questions from home, I was getting them from Mr. Gray. That became such a positive relationship for me. All of a sudden, I wanted to see him and tell him how things were going. He was a role model - somebody I could look up to.

He arranged to have another item delivered to me here in Austin. That's when I met Daniel Hester in the parking lot of the grocery store.

The Legacy Run will stop along the way for venues arranged by Legion Posts or American Legion Riders chapters along the route.

The location where he was living was too close to the government shelling, and I was afraid it would be shelled and I arranged another location for him to move to.

The Lord has perfectly arranged this wedding, the Saints have come together as a wedding party.

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.