Order Quotes - Page 200

To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense;Press to close with vigor, once begun,And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their freedom, in order to prosecute war -- yet they insist that the war is for 'freedom'.

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.

Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it certainly would have sounded fantastic if in the 1950's you were told that where you sat in a restaurant or on a bus could begin to uproot racism.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking above all else, something like a state of grace.

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show