Quotes about order
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“only through new words
might new worlds
be called
into order”

Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

Source: , said the shotgun to the head.

World

“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

Source: Gift from the Sea

Women, Solitude

“For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Interview with Don Swaim (1987)

Hunger, Art

“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Friendship, People, Tree

“Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkdeath

Books, Way

“Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Lying, Dead

“Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.”

Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) French sociologist (1858-1917)

Source: On Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Suicide

“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

“I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

Way, Learning, Clothes

“The aim of language… is to communicate… to impart to others the results one has obtained… As I talk, I reveal the situation… I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Communication, Change

“Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Love, Law, Country

“How swiftly the strained honey
of afternoon light
flows into darkness

and the closed bud shrugs off
its special mystery
in order to break into blossom:

as if what exists, exists
so that it can be lost
and become precious”

Lisel Mueller (1924) German poet

Source: Alive Together

Light

“No person has ever held all the power. There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light. With the Temple magic bound to you, the realms are no longer in balance. The power could change you… and you could change the magic.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Light, Change, Personality

“I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.”

Danielle Steel Second Chance

Source: Second Chance

“I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

People

“But laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

"On Freedom" (1940), p. 13 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950) <br class="br">Context: This freedom of communication is indispensable for the development and extension of scientific knowledge, a consideration of much practical import. In the first instance it must be guaranteed by law. But laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Such an ideal of external liberty can never be fully attained but must be sought unremittingly if scientific thought, and philosophical and creative thinking in general, are to be advanced as far as possible.

Law, Penalty, Freedom

“Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

Life, War, People, World

“As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Thinking, Universe

“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Death, People, World, Law

“In order to love people usefully you need to be focused on them and not yourself.”

Richard Templar (1950–2006) selfhelp author

Love, People

“Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Imagination, Freedom

“No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Eternity Code

Children, Fish

“Costis bowed stiffly. “I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Loss

“The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

God, Communication, Birth, Personality

“That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

World, Beauty, Feeling, Change

“But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me… and go on living without me.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

Thinking

“a lesson must be lived
in order to be learned
and the clarity to see and stop this now
that is what i've earned”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Learning

“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Life, Spring

“What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Lie, Learning, Dead

“Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.”

Robert Musil book The Man Without Qualities

Source: The Man Without Qualities

People, Reading

“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”

John Irving book Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling "Ordering a pizza?" at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back "Yeah. You want pepperoni?"
-Maximum Ride”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

People, Thinking

“I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp”

Vince Flynn (1966–2013) American writer of fiction

History

“Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Reading, Daughters

“All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter XI, Judge Holden
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Rage

“i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

World, Soul

“The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.”

Michael Ondaatje book In the Skin of a Lion

Source: In the Skin of a Lion

Time

“The engineers were under imperative orders”

Sam Davis

The History of Nevada Volume 1 of 2

“A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”

John Stuart Mill book On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

Life

“There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

“The order I found was the order of disorder.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Variant: The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
Source: A Clockwork Orange

Life, Evil

“A motion to adjourn is always in order.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Capricorn http://books.google.com/books?id=_HAhCxNs-QUC&lpg=PA176&q=&quot;Confusion+is+a+word+we+have+invented+for+an+order+which+is+not+understood&quot;&pg=PA176#v=onepage (1939)

“First, the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order." -Jace Wayland”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.
Source: City of Bones

Flowers

“They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a little worried about the reindeer. "You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?"

"Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Thinking

“Read in order to live.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Reading

“Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.”

Walter Moers book The City of Dreaming Books

Source: The City of Dreaming Books

“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Love, Help, Personality, Despair

“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”

Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!

Source: Krik? Krak!

Women

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

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

Nature, Sense, Beauty, Peaceful

“In order to learn, one must change one's mind.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Learning, Change

“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

“It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Understanding, Forgetting

“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.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

Happiness, People, Sense, Success

“I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Wall and Piece (2007)

“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“The truth is revealed when you are ready to receive it when you need it in order to move forward to take the next step in your journey. to move on toward your destiny.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Everlasting

Truth

“If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

World, Knowledge

“I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born… in order to become the world's strongest shinobi… an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me…”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Life, World

“You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu können, muß man vor allem ein Schaf sein.
The New Quotable Einstein
variant translation from Ideas and Opinions: "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
1950s, Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

Perfection