Order Quotes
-
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
Miguel de Unamuno
-
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.
Wes Jackson
-
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.
Thomas Hardy
-
The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
Ada Yonath
-
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
Aristotle
-
Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.
Bill Vaughan
-
He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.
R.J. Rushdoony
-
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
Robert Baden-Powell
-
I will sell Chiropractic, serve Chiropractic, and save Chiropractic if it will take me twenty lifetimes to do it. I will promote it within the law, without the law, in keeping with the law or against the law in order to get sick people well and keep the well from getting sick.
B. J. Palmer
-
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
-
Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.
Emily Yoffe
-
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
Anita Loos
-
"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.
Saint Augustine
-
Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.
H. G. Wells
-
There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.
Louise Erdrich
-
But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
Albert Camus
-
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order.
Albert Camus
-
That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
Ursula Nordstrom
-
We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
Bill Vaughan
-
I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.
Patrick Marber
-
I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.
Claudette Colbert
-
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
William James
-
One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.
Valerie Worth