Ordered Quotes
373 quotes by 319 authors
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The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great…
— Frank Waters
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It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.
— Confucius
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No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a…
— David O. McKay
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All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
— Lucy Grealy
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I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.
— Charles Manson
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When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a…
— Rosa Parks
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When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the…
— Stephen Elop
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Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day…
— Pope Paul VI
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
— Sri Aurobindo
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Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
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The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I…
— Douglas MacArthur
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God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our…
— Lettie Cowman
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Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a…
— Lawrence Lessig
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He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of…
— Dave Eggers
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Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by…
— Alberto Manguel
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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing,…
— Edna Ferber
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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
— Michel de Montaigne
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Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat…
— Yogi Berra
Who Wrote These Ordered Quotes
319 authors contributed a total of 373 Ordered Quotes, led by these top contributors: