Ordered Quotes
373 quotes by 319 authors
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The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn’t ordered to do.
— Clint Eastwood
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I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.
— Rosa Parks
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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
— Pittacus of Mytilene
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When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do…
— Epictetus
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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
— Edward Abbey
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We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered…
— Mike Huckabee
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I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Muhammad.
— Osama bin Laden
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A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
— Thomas a Kempis
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If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb.…
— John Flavel
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered…
— Plato
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It…
— Eugene Davidson
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If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws or…
— J. Spencer Kinard
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Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs…
— Wendell Phillips
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Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
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When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why, in the final…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the…
— Jim Harrison
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When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real…
— Pope Pius XI
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