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Order Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in…
- The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be…
- The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
- We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably…
- Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
- If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -…
- Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
- Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected…
- Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art…
- I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling…
- I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden…
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