Quotes on Order

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Author: Douglas Adams

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Author: Edward Albee

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

Author: Amy Alcott

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Author: Scott Alexander

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

Author: Norman Augustine

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

Author: Irving Babbitt

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Author: Richard Bach

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

Author: Joseph Barbera

The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

Author: John Barton

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Author: Pierre Beaumarchais

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

Author: Michael Behe

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

Author: Ezra Benson

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

Author: Jose Bergamin

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Author: Georges Bernanos

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.

Author: Marc Bloch

Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order.

Author: David Boaz

I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.

Author: Anatoli Boukreev

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Author: Edmund Burke

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Author: Richard Burton

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Author: George Bush

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

Author: Albert Camus

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

Author: Albert Camus

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.

Author: Anselm Canterbury

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

Author: Elliott Carter

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Author: Coco Chanel

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

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

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

Author: Julie Christie

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

Author: Emile Cioran

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

Author: J. Coetzee

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.

Author: Claudette Colbert

In order to be a top-tier candidate, I need 7.5 million dollars, and I currently have 0.0 million dollars.

Author: Stephen Colbert

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

Author: Jackie Collins

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

Author: Joseph Conrad

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

Author: Alan Coren

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

Author: Francis Crick

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

Author: Georges Danton

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Author: Denis Diderot

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

Author: Ani DiFranco

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Author: Marcel Duchamp

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

Author: Bob Dylan

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Author: Albert Einstein

In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.

Author: Recep Erdogan

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

Author: Arthur Erickson

Read in order to live.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer.

Author: John Fowler

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

Author: John Franklin

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process.

Author: Lynette Fromme

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.

Author: George Galloway

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

Author: Stephen Gardiner

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

Author: Charles Gaulle

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

Author: Samuel Gompers

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

Author: Edward Gorey

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

Author: Angelina Grimke

And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I mean, in order to be able to complete the... what we want to accomplish.

Author: Umberto Guidoni

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.

Author: Phil Harris

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.

Author: William Hazlitt

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.

Author: Mitch Hedberg

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Author: Arthur Helps

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.

Author: Peter Hook

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

Author: Carl Hubbell

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Author: Victor Hugo

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

Author: Thomas Huxley

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

Author: George Jackson

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!

Author: Derek Jacobi

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

Author: Roman Jakobson

In order to grow, you must learn to let go and strive toward something greater.

Author: Darren Johnson

No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.

Author: Nancy Johnson

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

Author: Davy Jones

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

Author: Joseph Joubert

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

Author: James Joule

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

Author: Louise Kaplan

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

Author: Kim Kardashian

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

Author: Karl Kraus

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Author: William Law

A month before the season, I don't order fries with my club sandwich.

Author: Mario Lemeiux

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

Author: Jonathan Lethem

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Author: C. Lewis

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.

Author: Anna Lindh

2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.

Author: LaToya London

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

Author: Rich Lowry

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Author: Douglas MacArthur

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

Author: Ricardo Magon

Order doesn't come by itself.

Author: Benoit Mandelbrot

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

Author: Groucho Marx

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

Author: George Mead

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Author: Golda Meir

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Author: Henry Miller

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

Author: Spike Milligan

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Author: Ludwig Mises

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

Author: Maria Monk

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Author: Michel Montaigne

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

Author: Eric Morecambe

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Author: Christopher Morley

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Author: Jim Morrison

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Author: Ralph Nader

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

Author: Frank Oz

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

Author: Evan Parker

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Author: Blaise Pascal

There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist.

Author: John Patrick

Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

Author: Minnie Pearl

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

Author: Dennis Potter

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Author: Max Pree

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Author: Manuel Puig

She would give them order. She would create constellations.

Author: Thomas Pynchon

We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.

Author: Mitchell Reiss

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

Author: Tony Robbins

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

Author: Nicolas Roeg

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

Author: Ida Rolf

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

Author: Anne Schaef

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

Author: Michael Schenker

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

Author: Bill Scott

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.

Author: Richard Serra

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

Author: John Spratt

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

Author: Bruce Springsteen

In order to do something you must be something.

Author: James Stockdale

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

Author: David Strathairn

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

Author: Billy Strayhorn

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Author: Taylor Swift

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

Author: John Turturro

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Author: Mark Twain

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Author: Raoul Vaneigem

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Author: Simone Weil

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

Author: Lawrence Welk

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

Author: John Wheeler

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.

Author: Byron White

And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.

Author: Gene Wilder

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

Author: Carey Williams

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

Author: Venus Williams

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

Author: Flip Wilson

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Embrace the chaos within you to unleash the creativity locked behind order's walls.

Author: Serena Rivera

Every challenge is an opportunity in disguise, waiting for us to unravel its potential.

Author: Maya Patel

Embrace the chaos, for within it lies hidden order.

Author: Sylvia Tran

Embrace the chaos with a calm mind, for only then will you make order out of the disorder.

Author: Olivia Moore

Creativity flourishes in the unpredictable dance of chaos and order.

Author: Sophia Alvarez

Chaos is merely order waiting to be discovered

Author: Emily Park