Order Quotes

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

What can you do in order to save your own banks?

In order to achieve goals you have not achieved before you have to become someone you haven't been before.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.

Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.

Even people within a relationship can be really alone, and then have to go outside of it in order to find something, whatever it is. It may be very bizarre and maybe something very tender.

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show

We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.