Order Quotes - page 5

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. (John Stuart Mill)
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. View quote
Ellen Goodman
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
An example is often a deceptive mirror, And the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, Is not always found written in things past. View quote
Pierre Corneille
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. View quote
Barack Obama
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. View quote
Arthur Miller
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. View quote
Jean Cocteau
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. View quote
René Descartes
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. View quote
Christopher Morley
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. (Adam Smith)
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. View quote
Peter De Vries
I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. View quote
Thom Mayne
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. View quote
Charles Cooley
Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order. View quote
Arthur Henderson
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. View quote
Bill Cosby
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. View quote
Giambattista Vico
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. (Les Brown)
I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. View quote
Mike Pence
People say to me all the time, "You have no fear." I tell them, "No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person." View quote
Ronda Rousey
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity. View quote
William James