You have to give up something in order to get something.

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap

Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,…

— Alice Miller

The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one…

— Antoine-Henri Jomini

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose…

— Stephen Breyer

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils…

— John Quincy Adams

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

— Anais Nin

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to…

— Anonymous

You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way.

— Frederick Lenz

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

— James A. Garfield

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

— George Eliot

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

— Voltaire

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

— George Washington

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried,…

— Brian Wilson