Order Quotes

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.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

Read in order to live.

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

What people want, above all, is order.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

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.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.