Order Quotes

The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

We kill with antibiotics and antiseptics, and if our slaughter is ineffectual we use surgery to expel the offending organ from our presence. We destroy the body in order to save it.

The person who is tormenting the Tibetans feels they have to get rid of the Tibetans in order to be happy.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God’s love with others, in order to help change the world for the better, for eternity!

The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls.

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow

Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along.

Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

Don't obey if your heart tells you the order is wrong.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

[Donald Trump] can do it [build the wall] by executive order by just re-programming money within the within the Immigration Service.

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

By the way, I don't mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher.

Obama isn't just too big to fail. He's too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.

Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.

It's very rare that you have a liberal run as an unabashed liberal. They have to lie about it. They have to mask who they are. And in order for them to survive and thrive, they have to keep that up.

I don't think I've ever heard anybody in this Regime counsel restraint and advise, "No backlash against cops. We must maintain the order."

Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare.

Every news agency basically is identical. Now, they may not report stories in the same order, and they may not report stories in the same day, but they all report the same thing about every story.

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

I can tell you that my experience has been that the gentlemen are more likely to come and ask for the order, ask for the raise, ask for the promotion, and that the women are less likely to do so.

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be...proceeding.

Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

I want to get a gold star. And I know that there are places that I need to go in order to get the story right. I'd rather do it right than have to do it twice.

I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.