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Order Quotes by Joan Didion
- A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool…
- Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind…
- The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
- I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of…
- I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also…
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which…
- I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.
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