Ordered Quotes
373 quotes by 319 authors
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing,…
— Saint Basil
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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
— Emily Carr
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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will…
— Sun Tzu
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.
— Woodrow Wilson
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I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?'
— Demetri Martin
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The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
— Lydia Sigourney
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen,…
— Gordon Allport
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Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can…
— Bertrand Russell
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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by…
— Albert Einstein
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Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole!…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's…
— Hanoi Hannah
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God created, Linnaeus ordered.
— Sten Lindroth
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Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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