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In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose...

— Ayn Rand

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

— Saigyō

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

— Steve Martin

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

— George Santayana

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

— Dorothy Parker

“God has taken you from something in order to you to something.”

— Chris Burkmenn

Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?

— Kenneth Waltz

Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a…

— Robert Holden

The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call…

— Lesslie Newbigin

I knew, despite playing in the NBA, that I would have to prepare for another career or vocation for when my playing…

— Len Elmore

All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our…

— Obafemi Awolowo

We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

— Benjamin Franklin

The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the…

— Robert M. Price

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order…

— Lauren Stamile

You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

It's so hard for people to give up their cell phones or their ideas of being connected to everything all the time…

— Greta Gerwig

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to…

— Wangari Maathai

And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,…

— Jane Yolen

I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm…

— Margaret Atwood

My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might…

— George Muller

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and…

— Ann Richards

Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of…

— Timothy Keller

I vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I…

— David Letterman

Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize

— J. I. Packer

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic.

— April Greiman

One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.

— Edwin Gaustad

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the…

— Elton John

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

— Joseph Joubert

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

— Susan Sontag

“My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.”

— Zadie Smith

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.

— Eric Bolling

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

— Julie Andrews

I need the kind of help that comes with a side order of help.

— Brad Meltzer

A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

— Jimi Hendrix

Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for.

— Richard Diebenkorn

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

— Hisham Matar