203 Quotes About Lists

God is the only one that won't disappoint you. Everyone else is percentages of your peace.

Over the last 10 years, we've learned that there's still no better way to succeed in college than to be well read.

I did love a good list. There was something about the control you get from emptying your head by simply jotting your thoughts down, then the satisfaction when slicing through them with s big fat tick once completed.

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion.

Sometimes the most important things don't fit on lists.

The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.

Prerequisites are ego in list form.

The reinvention, the self-improvement, this kind of planning never really ends. It's not like you cross off six out of seven things from a recent list and voila, no more lists to worry about. It sounds more exhausting than it is. The life project.

Always lists to be made, as if writing items in neat vertical rows might stave off randomness and chaos.