Quotes about order
order praise
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
order miracle the-end-of-the-day
You can try to call it coincidence, but at the end of the day, there are 20, 30 things when you combine them all that had to happen at the right time in order for me to be here. That’s why I call it a miracle. Jeremy Lin
order law needs
One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it. Jeff Cooper
order foolish made
I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me. Jean-Paul Sartre
order trying might
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
order risk facts
In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life.
order criticism language
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
order desire world
The desire for order is the only order in the world. Georges Duhamel
order discipline liberty
Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others Georges Clemenceau
order people terrible
Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves! Georges Danton
order needs conquer
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
order ideas may
If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be. Georges Braque
order law literature
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order. Georges Bataille
order space needs
There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion. George Will
order musician figures
Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out. George Russell
order giving humans
No human creature can give orders to love. George Sand
order no-excuses excuse
Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction. George S. Patton
order trying language
The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who he has likely never met and who is actually thousands of readers. George Saunders
order people done
We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear. Jenji Kohan
order succeed stakes
In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground. Jeff Raikes
order justice guilt
You feign guilt in order to justify yourself. Jean Racine
order two geometric
As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living. Jean Piaget
order government perception
There is a distorted perception of what goes on in Brussels. No one reports on the Commission taking a hundred initiatives from its predecessor off the table in order to shift competencies back to member state governments. Jean-Claude Juncker
order knives facts
There is no more embarrassing thing in my life that the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, I would like to order the Ginsu Knife. Jerry Seinfeld
order way miserable
The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It's hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order - and that in some cases it could even save your life. Jeffrey Kluger
order epidemics stories
Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.
order play careers
I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys. Jeffrey Pierce
order goal growth
I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals? James C. Collins
order transition cop
When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint . . . were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift. James Agee
order justice social-justice
In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself. James A. Baldwin
order rights revolution
When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
order white people
People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.
order surrender frame-of-reference
...in order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.