Order Quotes
8221 Order quotes by 4470 unique authors
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Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if…
— Boethius
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You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere…
— Jean Harris
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Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression
— John Foster Dulles
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
— Angela Carter
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People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of…
— Robert Coover
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
— Edward Abbey
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Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things
— Douglas Adams
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The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
— Benjamin Franklin
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One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them…
— Isaac Asimov
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The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of…
— James Truslow Adams
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This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the…
— Stephen Shore
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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order…
— Immanuel Kant
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Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it…
— Immanuel Kant
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Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The…
— Elliott Smith
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No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have…
— John Dickinson
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In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
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The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,
— Margaret Sanger
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
— John Dryden
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The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the…
— Willy Brandt
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The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against…
— Arundhati Roy
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These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order…
— Allan Bloom
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The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and…
— William James
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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…
— Joan Didion
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