Order Quotes · Page 111

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

— Gustave Flaubert

“In order to change a situation one has first to see it for what it is.”

— James Baldwin

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only…

— Blaise Pascal

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

— William James

Business people have always liked my administration because we gave the best law and order.

— Mayawati

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

— Pablo Picasso

I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

— Larry David

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

— Kerry Thornley

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have…

— Brian Tracy

in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to…

— Jim Butcher

There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him…

— Max Planck

Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of…

— Sebastian Coe

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do…

— Andy Taylor

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract…

— Peggy Guggenheim

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark…

— Blaise Pascal

The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of…

— Edmund Burke

I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only…

— Jerry Spinelli

This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe…

— Seneca the Younger

The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from…

— R. C. Sproul

Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a…

— Angela Merkel

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely…

— John Fowles

From a still wider and more comprehensive point of view, universal life itself appears to us as a struggle between multiplicity and…

— Roberto Assagioli

Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I…

— Hugh Laurie

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

— Anonymous

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

— Yanni

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

— James A. Baldwin

I will cancel every illegal Obamacare executive order. I will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Out.

— Donald Trump

In order to achieve goals you have not achieved before you have to become someone you haven't been before.

— Jim Rohn

In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.

— Abraham Maslow

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order...

— Thomas Paine

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

— Anonymous

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

— Rick Moody

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

— Angela Carter

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

— Fred Brooks

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

— Anonymous

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

— Marjane Satrapi

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

— Ruth Hubbard

Every action being taken against terrorists requires court order, requires scrutiny.

— George W. Bush