Order Quotes
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God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
Seamus Heaney
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It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.
Thomas Nagel
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In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
Ray Bradbury
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And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
Carrie Fisher
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I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.
Chien-Ming Wang
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I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
Michael Caine
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
Baruch Spinoza
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Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.
Nathanael West
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
Henrik Ibsen
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Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.
Sebastian Junger
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin
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If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.
Terry Eagleton
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
Ray Bradbury
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In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.
Charles Durning
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I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
Cecily McMillan
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You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.
Dolly Parton
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In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.
David Oliver
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I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.
Sandra Bullock
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
Miguel de Unamuno
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I write in order to belong.
Elena Poniatowska
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There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.
Terence McKenna
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Our new little house Kirchner moved to the Wildboden house is a real joy to us. We shall live here comfortably and in great new order. This will really come to be a turning point of my life. Everything must be put in clear order and the little house furnished as simply and modestly as possible, while still being beautiful and intimate.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec