Quotes about order
order chaos stills
I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. John le Carre
order cities justice
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice. John Knox
order want energy
The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency John Barth
order stardom constructs
I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things. Julie Christie
order departure guests
It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true. Judith Martin
order missing logic
Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.
order giving heaven
Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best. Joseph McCabe
order giving captains
You are like a captain navigating a ship... You must give the right orders, thoughts and images to your subconscious which controls and governs all your experiences. Joseph Murphy
order firsts calling
Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election. Joseph Hall
order voice passionate
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees. Karel Capek
order voice our-world
Huge imbalance in power has resulted in the alienation, rage, fury, and awful amoral terrorism that has erupted and is erupting at the present time. And in order to counter this, we need to make the compassionate voice of religion and morality a dynamic force in our world. Karen Armstrong
order years long
I've been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn't feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere. Joyce Meyer
order envy doubt
If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we're being gypped. Judith Viorst
order paper fancy
The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it. Joseph Conrad
order giving agents
All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears. Joseph de Maistre
order soul world
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... Leonard Cohen
order care sides
I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.
order practice jockeys
I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band. Lawrence Welk
order trying patterns
There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random. Lauren Beukes
order things-in-life moral
The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order. Lauren Bacall
order soldier trying
I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner. Laurell K. Hamilton
order world captains
Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain. Lata Mangeshkar
order goering nazism
Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism. John Kenneth Galbraith
order rupture surprise
The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order. Julio Cortazar
order narrative chaos
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos. Julianne Moore
order community soul
The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. Karl Jaspers
order earth old-testament
Do you not know that the God of the Old Testament orders the Jews to consume and enslave the peoples of the earth? Julius Streicher
order african-american black
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone. Joycelyn Elders
order people matter
There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are. Oscar Isaac
order people insane
But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane. Kathy Acker
order battle would-be
But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.
order tolerance understanding
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order. Kamisese Mara
order creative failing
In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail. Julie Walters