Order Quotes

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.

In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.

The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.

In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.

Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées. Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.