Quotes about order
order government political
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. Mark Twain
order solitude mind
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
order imperfection tendencies
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
order records might
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
order identity movement
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder Paul Ricoeur
order childhood return
In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind. Paul Gauguin
order people house
I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy. Patrick O'Brian
order dawn excuse
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. Patrick Ness
order vicious roof
Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he’s worth my time.” Kvothe: “That was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof. Patrick Rothfuss
order buffets needs
I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude. Patrice O'Neal
order people agents
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. Parker Posey
order numbers interesting
A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets. Lev Grossman
order class giving
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it. Leon Trotsky
order climbing ladders
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like. Laurence J. Peter
order people giving
People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed. Lauren Oliver
order years court
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself:;:-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course. Larry Wall
order land voice
The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'. P. J. O'Rourke
order canvas apparitions
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. Pablo Picasso
order know-how knows
I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
order parent finding-yourself
You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself. Patti Davis
order letters way
If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words. Patricia McCormick
order people want
What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn? Ivan Illich
order able succeed
Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal. Isla Fisher
order oneself
One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself. Irvin D. Yalom
order space giving
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life. Irvine Welsh
order space giving
Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life
order our-world sick
I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act! Imre Kertesz
order facts theory
In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts Imre Lakatos
order years law
I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up. Idris Elba
order level-playing-field levels
In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
order scene difficulty
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. Gloria Swanson
order body violence
Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved. Gloria Steinem
order belief injustice
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.