Ordered Quotes
373 quotes by 319 authors
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The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as…
— Paul Davies
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The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.
— Charles A. Reich
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
— Bainbridge Colby
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and…
— Al McGuire
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Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.
— Stephen Charnock
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There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
— Caroline Knapp
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his…
— A. E. Housman
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Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never…
— Studs Terkel
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We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and…
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
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Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the beginning nothing more…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a…
— Dale Dye
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Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of…
— Rush Limbaugh
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
— Seneca the Younger
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I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place…
— Alex Garland
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The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth,…
— Malaclypse the Younger
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