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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink. (Ernest Hemingway)
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. View quote
George Santayana
In order to win, you must expect to win. View quote
Richard Bach
When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors. View quote
Ann Coulter
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. View quote
Joan Didion
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. View quote
Tom Stoppard
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. View quote
François Fénelon
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. View quote
David Bohm
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. (Nhat Hanh)
It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available-more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more. View quote
Nhat Hanh
There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. View quote
Mortimer Adler
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . . View quote
Walter Lippmann
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. View quote
Alice Cooper
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. View quote
George Orwell
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. View quote
Northrop Frye
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown. View quote
Thomas Mann
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. (Kenneth Clark)
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. View quote
Francis Bacon
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. View quote
Francis Bacon
I shut my eyes in order to see. View quote
Paul Gauguin