Quotes about order
order missing soul
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything. Elizabeth Gilbert
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 civilization desire
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. Liu Xiaobo
order trials speak
I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process. Lynette Fromme
order long age
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age. Lyndon B. Johnson
order united-states democrat
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
order confusion architecture
Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
order giving dues
We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.
order goal confusion
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.
order people news
You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public. Lowell Bergman
order simplicity important
Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general. M. C. Escher
order chaos repetition
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.
order fire what-if
What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk? Loren Eiseley
order ideas rivers
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell. Malcolm Gladwell
order brotherhood connections
We formed in 1993 to make it clear that we don't take our marching orders from anyone overseas, we have no connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. Mahdi Bray