Ordering Quotes

111 quotes by 101 authors

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around. — Will Rogers
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who… — Marcus Aurelius
Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form,… — Eudora Welty
When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us. — William Feather
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around.… — Lisa Marie Presley
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. — Carl Sandburg
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable… — Albert Einstein
Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately,… — Brady Udall
Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the… — John Hodgman
Q: Whatâ€™s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination… — Tom Waits
I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than… — Marilynne Robinson
...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life. — Dashiell Hammett
But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can… — Mary Karr
It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping… — John Fowles
It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling "Ordering a pizza?" at me, without even thinking, I would… — James Patterson
Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering,… — William Faulkner
And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want. — Lilith Saintcrow
Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you? — Adam Selzer

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