Quotes about order
order two heaven
If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless. Denis Diderot
order waiting chaos
Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed. Dean Koontz
order lions easy
A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse
order forever economy
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. Daniel Hannan
order said
I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else. Daniel Handler
order secret spy
There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap your fingers and grin to demonstrate that the music had charms that could soothe your savage breast. If you were employed as a spy, you might snap your fingers and grin in order to deliver a message in secret snapping-and-grinning code.
order cake glasses
Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.
order feet laughing
She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away. Damon Runyon
order years want
Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one? Connie Willis
order different
In order to be different one must be irreplaceble. Coco Chanel
order uptight stage
I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it. Elizabeth Taylor
order doctors may
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it. Elizabeth Kenny
order hands philosopher
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. Elias Canetti
order mind trying
In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything. Ashleigh Brilliant
order elements foundation
The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace? Arthur Henderson
order space purpose
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. Barbara Hepworth
order iowa trying
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). Trying to find some sense and order in this mess may be as futile as trying to ... reconstruct the economy of Iowa from a bowl of popcorn. [On searching for evidence of the Big Bang.] Barbara Ehrenreich
order jeans shapes
Topshop makes the best skinny jeans for my shape. I order online or stock up when I'm back in London. Ashley Madekwe
order self abuse
A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period. Ashley Judd
order world
You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order. Bernie Siegel
order way normal
Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it. Bruce Tognazzini
order people
Most people won't order tripe in a restaurant, but it can be fantastic. Simon McBurney
order games chess
The best tournament that I have ever played in was in 1950. It was great - a waiter came to you during the game, and you could order anything you wanted to drink (even some vodka, if you liked). Pity, there are no longer tournaments organized in this manner... Boris Spassky
order law confusion
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. Archibald MacLeish
order marketing success-and-failure
Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own. Ben Mezrich
order law people
There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision. Barbara Jordan
order people masters
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. Ashwin Sanghi
order anxiety honor
He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly. Baruch Spinoza
order fixed preserves
Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
order mind function
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
order words-of-wisdom pantheism
.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.
order goal progress
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. Auguste Comte
order giving people
In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow it. It happens. Genius happens and it doesn't always happen in a zip code where we can access it. Therefore, we kind of need [Internet] not to keep tabs on everybody but we need to give them access to everybody else. Augusten Burroughs