Quotes about order
order action right-action
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. Charlemagne
order light velocity
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity. Charles Babbage
order law miracle
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature. Charles Babbage
order trying entertainment
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. Alanis Morissette
order race unhappy
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. Blake Edwards
order truly-happy diversion
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. Blaise Pascal
order charity saint
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them...the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity. Blaise Pascal
order pizza tend
We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook. Katie Holmes
order entrepreneur benefits
The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers. Ludwig von Mises
order percent squeeze therefore
We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.
order imagination needs
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. Azar Nafisi
order what-if red
What if I couldn't read? I wouldn't be able to text my friends movie times or even order cheese biscuits from Red Lobster! Aziz Ansari
order protect secure
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom. Ayn Rand
order giving waiting
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again. Ayn Rand
order unity invention
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. Bertrand Russell
order nwo world-government
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. Benjamin Disraeli
order matter taste
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. Benjamin Disraeli
order law cost
Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost. Carl Sandburg
order imagination literature
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis
order house-of-cards trying
God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down. C. S. Lewis
order religion lessons
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. C. S. Lewis
orders past percent seen six values
We've seen 25 percent more orders and order values over the past six months.
order should-have organization
NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization. Burt Rutan
order orbit magnitude
No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable. Burt Rutan
order dinner waitress
I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing. Catherine Keener
order nwo growth
The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups. Carroll Quigley
order humanity development
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. Alain Badiou
order people democracy
In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed. Alain Badiou
order ideas dimensions
The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought. Alain de Botton
order people appreciate
It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting. Eddie Vedder
order dutch speak
Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot. Eddie Vedder
order people crooks
But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing. Elizabeth Bowen
order victim privileged
No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims ... Elizabeth Cady Stanton