Ordering Quotes

111 quotes by 101 authors

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator. — Michael Gungor
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the… — Ian Mcewan
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more… — Robert Watson-Watt
The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the… — Walter Lippmann
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty,… — Ashley Montagu
Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and… — Russell Baker
There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules. — George Will
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. — Hannah Arendt
I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone.… — Ben Silbermann
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is… — Harold Geneen
Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not… — Og Mandino
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off… — Vash Young
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I… — Adam Gopnik
It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually… — David Graeber
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of… — Mary Douglas
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity… — Alfonso X of Castile
Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable. — Susan Sontag
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can… — David Shi
I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes… — Henry Moore

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