Order Quotes - page 3

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. View quote
Xun Zi
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. View quote
Groucho Marx
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. View quote
Mary Pickford
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. View quote
William Hazlitt
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. (William Hazlitt)
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. View quote
Georg Büchner
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. View quote
Montesquieu
The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. View quote
Stephen Hawking
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. View quote
John Ruskin
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Learn what is true in order to do what is right. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. View quote
Henry Miller
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. View quote
Henry Miller
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. View quote
E. M. Forster
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production... View quote
Jean-François Lyotard
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