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Order Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance.…
- In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.
- When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
- You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world...…
- When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I…
- Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in…
- The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others in order to…
- You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can…
- The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
- All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,…
- Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must…
- It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
- People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized…
- ...in order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that…
- One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter,…
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