Quotes about order
order perfect use
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. Max Born
order vision degradation
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradations and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture Max Beckmann
order two phenomenology
The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
order addiction trying
Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink. Matthew Perry
order errors grace
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace. Marilynne Robinson
order goodness indispensable
Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it. Maria Montessori
order space silence
Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself. Eckhart Tolle
order people needs
Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.
order demand film
Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely. Jonathan Lethem
order giving maintenance
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement. Jonathan Haidt
order conservative easy
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.
order stardom constructs
I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things. Julie Christie
order brain atoms
Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms. Richard Dawkins
order religion littles
I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.
order numbers understanding
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply assume in order to derive the rest of their understanding ... have to be assumed. You can't provide a rationale for why those numbers are there. Physicists have calculated that if any of these numbers was a little bit different, the universe as we know it wouldn't exist.
order erring imperfect
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. Richard Whately
order world logic
For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason. Richelle Mead
order dessert-first guy
I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first. Ryan Kwanten
order people courageous
People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person. Ronda Rousey
order have-courage
You have to have fear in order to have courage.
order mind ladders
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. Umberto Eco
order littles things-change
Working with my new coach has helped a lot. I've been a lot more focused and I'm doing all the little things in order to get faster. It's been a total lifestyle change really. Tyler Christopher
order know-how knows
What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow. Tyler Perry
order needs reason
Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves. Trudi Canavan
order justice enemy
We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future. Rick Riordan
order ideas people
In order to make any permanent changes, you have to be willing. Willing to see things differently. Willing to experience new ideas. Willing to listen to the people who cheered you on rather than ones who echoed your fears. Rhonda Britten
order effort social
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible. Reinhold Niebuhr
order ideas income
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.
order quality needs
Adjusting to a new path and a new direction will require new qualities and strengths, and these qualities are always exactly what we need to acquire in order to accomplish the great things ahead in our life. Rhonda Byrne
order giving grace
Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field promotion to praetor, with the full powers of that rank. Take command of this legion!
order two soul
The Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!" "Awesome," Percy said. "Could we get two orders of that to go?
order understanding individuality
Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about. To live without understanding the purpose of life is foolish, a waste of time. The mystery of life surrounds us; we were given intelligence in order to solve it. Paramahansa Yogananda
order fire zombie
Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes. Patton Oswalt