Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.
I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.
the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.
I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.
We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.
There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.
Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who ...
I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.
Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats.
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
