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Order Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
- He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the…
- Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of…
- The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in…
- The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain…
- The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are…
- They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
- All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
More Order Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila