Order Quotes

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that.

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. I didn't want the set to be boring. So I'd moved some older songs onto the autoharp, and they worked really well.

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Trying to understand women is a tall order period.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.