Quotes and Sayings about Order
"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Age, Society, Ballads, Nothing, State)
"Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Military)
"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Art, Effort, Man, Order, Reality)
"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Order)
"Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit."
- Henry Adams
(Related: Life, Habit, Chaos, Order)
"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Obstacles, Order)
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Life, Habit, Chaos, Order)
"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Nature, Dream, Chaos, Law, Man, Order)
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
- John Adams
(Related: Exercise, Horses, Old, Order)
"You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Order, Risk)
"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Legal, Knowledge, Desire, Information, Law, Order, Writers)
"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Change, Heart, Conformity, Contradiction, Laws, Man, Needs, Order)
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Time, Mind, Nothing, Order)
"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Art, Chaos, Order, Today)
"My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Father, Chicago, Day, Order, Play, School, Tennis)
"Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948."
- Gianni Agnelli
(Related: War, Cities, Disorder, Italy)
"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Order)
"The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt."
- Amy Alcott
(Related: Order, Pressure, Right)
"The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: Life, Order, Republican)
"The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get."
- Scott Alexander
(Related: Order)
"Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Government, Civil liberties, Fighting, Giving, May, Name, Order, Public, Terrorism)
"Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform."
- Jim Allchin
(Related: Jobs, Order, Popular, Want, Windows)
"While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith."
- Ethan Allen
(Related: Nature, Interest, Law, Order, Reason, Tyranny, Will)
"Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void."
- Hervey Allen
"The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Power, Leader, President)
"But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Country, Land, Mercury, Rest)
"I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Eating, Illness)
"He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music."
- Herb Alpert
(Related: Music, Order, Play)
"U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Acquaintance, Now, Order, Soldiers, Will)
"Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered."
- B. R. Ambedkar
(Related: Body, Law, Medicine, Order)
"What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights."
- B. R. Ambedkar
(Related: Conflict, Discrimination, Rights, Inequality, Liberty, Order, Reform)
"The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things."
- William Ames
(Related: Eternity, Existence, Present, World)
"Order is power."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Power, Order)
"Order is a great person's need and their true well being."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Being, Order)
"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Faith, Thought, Action, Criticism, Doubt, Order, Reflection)
"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order."
- Idi Amin
(Related: People, Country, Law, Nation, Order)
"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"
- A. R. Ammons
(Related: Music, Poetry, Correction, Disorder, Question, Words)
"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."
- A. R. Ammons
(Related: Change, Successful, Clarity, Meaning, Order, Stability, Stress)
"A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter."
- Morey Amsterdam
"I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident."
- Jack Anderson
(Related: People, Accident, Hurt, Light, Order)
"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: People, Discipline, Order)
"It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions."
- Primo Angeli
(Related: Decisions, Order)
"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Experience, Time, Body, Order, Spiritual, Spirituality)
"Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Life, Order)
"I will withdraw to my fortress, and after the slaughter, I will restore order."
- Ion Antonescu
(Related: Order, Will)
"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: War, Authority, Cause, First, Intention, Order)
"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Right, Self)
"In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth."
- Yasser Arafat
(Related: Goal, Order, Palestine)
"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Death, Living, Order)
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Future, Promises)
"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."
- Aristotle
(Related: May, Mind, Order, State)
"It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Love, Order)
"My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him."
- Dick Armey
"I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order."
- Will Arnett
(Related: First, Order)
"The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Nature, Time, Man, Order)
"Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Work, Body, Machine, Order)
"Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Mind, Order)
"Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Disorder, Now)
"Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Nature, Science, Actions, Man, Order, State)
"Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Art, Man, Order, State, World)
"In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: First, Order, Senses)
"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Consequences, Information, Order, Present, Theory)
"While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together."
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
(Related: Work, Progress, Countries, Order, Terrorism)
"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."
- Antonin Artaud
(Related: Time, Work, Absence, Opium, Order, Present)
"We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes."
- Jane Asher
(Related: People, Order)
"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Conscience, Man, Order)
"Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Glory, Name, Order, Sun, Treasure)
"I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Travel, History, Animals, Order)
"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Travel, Navy, Order)
"I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: Family, Life, Rights, Majority, Man, Order, Quotes, World)
"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."
- Frank Auerbach
(Related: Act, Day, Order)
"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."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Order)
"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Nothing, Order)
"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Women, Being, Girls, Man, Will)
"A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done."
- Alan Autry
(Related: Country, Order, Rest)
"I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown."
- Alan Autry
(Related: Goal, Order, Public, Support)
"The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order."
- Ibrahim Babangida
(Related: Challenge, Democracy, Direction, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Order, Project)
"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."
- Charles Babbage
(Related: Work, Time, Light, Order)
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
- Irving Babbitt
(Related: Order, Will)
"In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Government, Fact, Security)
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Events, Mistakes, Order)
"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Sacrifice, Boredom, Order)
"In order to win, you must expect to win."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Order)
"The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Music, Now, Order, Right, Thinking)
"As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: America, Cities, Jobs, states)
"By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Home, Encouraging, Burden, Welfare, Will, Workers)
"For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Life, Opportunity, Hope, America, Country, Freedom, Generations, Land)
"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Discretion, Eloquence, Order, Speech, Words)
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Darkness, Light, Order, Present)
"If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong."
- Leonard Bacon
(Related: Government, Virtue, Laws, Nothing, Order, Slavery, states, Wrong)
"A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity."
- Alain Badiou
(Related: Truth, Development, Creation, Humanity, Interest, Order)
"He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you."
- Jane Badler
(Related: Love, Environment, Feeling, Order, Right)
"Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution."
- Michael Badnarik
(Related: Government, Survival, Constitution, Fathers, Founding, Order)
"I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Play)
"I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job."
- Donovan Bailey
(Related: Opportunity, Successful, Gifts, Job, Want)
"In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
- H. C. Bailey
(Related: Miracles, Order)
"You must change in order to survive."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: Change, Order)
"The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Car, Men, Time, First, Man, Order, Woman)
"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Action, Balance, Man, Order, Thinking)
"Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul."
- James M. Baldwin
(Related: Nature, Soul, Order, Reason)
"Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on."
- Jan Peter Balkenende
(Related: Cooperation, Countries, Europe, Evil, Order, Terrorism)
"There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude."
- Robert Ballard
(Related: Land, Sea)
"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Faith, Commitment, Example, New testament, Order)
"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Beauty, Appearance, Order)
"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."
- Balthus
(Related: Chaos, Emotions, Order, Painting)
"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."
- Toni Cade Bambara
(Related: Experience, Meaning, Order)
"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
- Albert Bandura
(Related: Life, People, Obstacles, Order, Self, Sense, Struggle, Succeed)
"In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home."
- Leslie Banks
(Related: Home, Mom, Money, Time, Honesty, Order, State, Trying)
"I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Past)
"Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired."
- William Banting
(Related: Business, Life, Men, Anxiety, Career, Order, Years)
"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Order)
"The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award."
- Javier Bardem
(Related: People, Meaning, Order, Theater)
"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."
- Javier Bardem
(Related: Faith, People, Fear, Control, Manipulation, Order, Respect)
"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
- Clive Barker
(Related: Work, Life, May)
"Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge."
- John Perry Barlow
(Related: Ethics, Order, Self, Will)
"You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions."
- John Perry Barlow
(Related: Society, Culture, Ethics, Order)
"A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted."
- Matthew Barney
(Related: Sports, Order, Trying)
"The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock."
- Maria Bartiromo
(Related: Money, Influence, Order, Support, Will)
"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."
- Maria Bartiromo
(Related: Order, Trade)
"The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Conversation, Order, Voice, Will)
"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."
- John Barton
(Related: Order, Privacy, Respect, Writing)
"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
- John Barton
(Related: Feelings, Order, Sentimentality)
"It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border."
- William Bartram
(Related: May, Now)
"My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view."
- William Bartram
(Related: Progress, Elegance, Order)
"If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose."
- William Bartram
(Related: Perseverance, Purpose, Attention, Creation, Economy, Effect, Order, Resolution)
"Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!"
- Abu Bakar Bashir
(Related: Society, Community, Order, Radical)
"Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims."
- Abu Bakar Bashir
(Related: Islam)
"When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will."
- Frederic Bastiat
(Related: Soldiers, Will)
"The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies."
- Daisy Bates
(Related: Mistake, Enemies, Man, Woman)
"Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States."
- Max Baucus
(Related: Time, Now, Open, states, United)
"God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: God, Being, Order)
"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Men, Artist, First, Man, Order, World)
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: God, Judgment, Order, Right, World)
"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: Peace, Disorder, Intolerance)
"I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?"
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Men, Sex, Day, Lies, Order, Present, Relationships)
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
- Melody Beattie
(Related: Home, Life, Gratitude, Friend, Acceptance, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Denial, Order)
"I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2."
- Ned Beatty
(Related: Depression, Disorder)
"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."
- Pierre Beaumarchais
(Related: Order)
"February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II."
- Xavier Becerra
(Related: War, Americans, February, Living, Order, World, World war)
"And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: God, Peace, Being, Nothing, Order, Pretty, Problems, Self, Will)
"When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans."
- Ulrich Beck
(Related: Experience, Europe, Open)
"I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs."
- David Beckham
(Related: Disorder)
"I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show."
- Samantha Bee
(Related: Jokes, News, Order)
"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: People, Order, Wrong)
"In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Order)
"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Love, Time, Discipline, Order, Solitude, Writing)
"Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder."
- Pope Benedict XVI
(Related: Disorder, Evil, Sin)
"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."
- Walter Benjamin
(Related: Chaos, Memories, Passion)
"Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order."
- Ezra Taft Benson
(Related: Order, Right)
"True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Art, Attention, Order)
"Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?"
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Order, Talk)
"The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds."
- Hans Berger
(Related: First, Order)
"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."
- John Berger
(Related: God, Burden, Forget, Memory, Order)
"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."
- John Berger
(Related: Thought, Being, Compassion, Necessity, Order, Supernatural, World)
"Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies."
- Milton Berle
"We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case."
- Silvio Berlusconi
(Related: Peace, War, Action, Hope, Justice, Order)
"The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order."
- John Desmond Bernal
(Related: Action, Army, Order)
"It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so."
- Georges Bernanos
(Related: Order, Pride)
"The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry."
- Louis de Bernieres
(Related: Heart, Disorder, Geometry)
"I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order."
- Daniel Berrigan
(Related: Order)
"Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect."
- Bruno Bettelheim
(Related: Authority, May, Obedience, Punishment, Self, Will)
"Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Society, Fascism, Future, Order)
"If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order."
- Vinoba Bhave
(Related: Nature, Order)
"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
- John Bigelow
(Related: Wisdom, Result)
"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Civilization, Country, Illusion, Now, Order, Right, Tension)
"In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes."
- Jason Biggs
(Related: Character, American, Order)
"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Modernity, Order, Tradition)
"The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Boys, Enemy, Fire)
"I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Acting, Order)
"Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach."
- Marsha Blackburn
(Related: People, American, Benefits, Republican, Republicans, Security)
"We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation."
- Marsha Blackburn
(Related: Beginning, Country, Debate, Nation)
"Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders."
- Marsha Blackburn
(Related: Time, Country, Drugs, Nation, Weapons)
"Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State."
- Marsha Blackburn
(Related: State)
"In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently."
- Harry A. Blackmun
(Related: First, Order, Race, Racism)
"In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government."
- Kenneth Blackwell
(Related: Government, Control, Growth, Burden, Tax, Order)
"I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given."
- Dennis C. Blair
(Related: Time, Decisions, Fault, Past, Will)
"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime."
- Tony Blair
(Related: Causes, Crime, Law, Order, Party, Today)
"I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border."
- Edward Blake
(Related: Fear, Beginning, Carnival, Crime)
"Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder."
- Steve Blake
(Related: People, Disorder, Hatred, Pretty, Race, Today)
"The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life."
- H. P. Blavatsky
(Related: Life, Nature, March, Order)
"The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony."
- Hans Blix
(Related: Fear, Bugs, Country, May, State)
"I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc."
- Hans Blix
(Related: Fear, World)
"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."
- Marc Bloch
(Related: Order, Profession)
"We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Legal, Control, Law, Security)
"It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them."
- Sidney Blumenthal
(Related: History, Values, Democrats, Order, Project, Sense)
"Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order."
- David Boaz
(Related: Order, Taxes)
"This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law."
- John Boehner
(Related: Israel, Law, Nations, Resolution, Right)
"House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it."
- John Boehner
(Related: Republicans, Security, Want)
"The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie."
- Louise Bogan
(Related: Class, Order)
"This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society."
- David Bohm
(Related: Society, Help, Mind, Thinking)
"My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc."
- David Bohm
(Related: Feelings, Language, Mind, Order, State)
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Change, Deep, Difficulty, Order, Solution, Thinking)
"I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Mother, Order)
"Never order food in excess of your body weight."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Food, Body, Excess, Order, Weight)
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Act, Order)
"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Order, Question, Theory)
"The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Death, Economy, Tax, Now, Order)
"The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap."
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
(Related: Progress, Burden, Fight, Now, Order, Proof, Terrorism)
"Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries."
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
(Related: Countries, Dignity, Poor)
"It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Courage, African, Leaders, Order, Will)
"The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Development, Act, African, End, Fight, Order, states)
"There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: Time, Help, Order, Traveling)
"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."
- Edward de Bono
(Related: Experience, Creativity, Order)
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
- Edward de Bono
(Related: Creativity, Order)
"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."
- Jorge Luis Borges
(Related: Act, Causes, Infinite, Literature, Order)
"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success."
- Max Born
(Related: Success, God, Intellect, Order, World)
"Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Constitution, December, Order, State, states, United)
"I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit."
- Anatoli Boukreev
(Related: Experience, People, Expertise, Help, Order)
"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."
- Anatoli Boukreev
(Related: Order)
"The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Change, People, Country, Mission, Order, Security, Workers)
"As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order."
- Allen Boyd
(Related: Government, Conservative, Economy, Order, Play)
"It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco."
- Allen Boyd
(Related: Time, Congress, Order, Production)
"Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character."
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
(Related: Feelings, Idea, Character, Conformity, Order, Want)
"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game."
- Ed Bradley
(Related: Experience, Basketball, Games, Summer)
"These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders."
- Robert Brady
"My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Change, God, Disorder)
"The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles."
- Louis D. Brandeis
(Related: Law, Miracles, Order, Problems, World)
"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."
- Louis D. Brandeis
(Related: Government, Conviction, End, Law, May, Order)
"I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Being, Order)
"I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Future, Generations, Order, Responsibility)
"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: Life, Film, First, Flowers, Living, Order, Water)
"I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Government, People, Order, Will)
"I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it."
- Harold Brodkey
(Related: Change, Disease, Order, Past)
"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
(Related: Technology, Development, Management, Improvement, Order, Productivity, Promises, Simplicity)
"I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion."
- James Broughton
(Related: Emotion, Order, Writing)
"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Future, Killing, Now, Order, Project, Risk)
"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."
- Les Brown
(Related: Motivation, Hunger, Obstacles, Order, Will)
"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."
- Les Brown
(Related: Goals, Day, Order)
"Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers."
- Pat Brown
(Related: Books, Television)
"When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights."
- William Wells Brown
(Related: Change, Time, Mother, Thought, Being, Rights, Name)
"There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before."
- Dave Brubeck
(Related: Chance, Mistakes, Order, Play)
"In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman."
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Evil, Man, Order, Woman)
"We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Diet, Food, Work, Order)
"One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Love, Humanity, Order, Ugly)
"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
- Pearl S. Buck
(Related: Beauty, Order)
"When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done."
- Lindsey Buckingham
(Related: Time, Work, Being, Denial, Exercise, Order, Psychology)
"Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person."
- Tim Buckley
(Related: Talent, Character, Coach, Order, Play)
"A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: Death, Eyes, Man, Months, Order)
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Time, Democracy, Dictatorship, Difference, First, Vote, Voting, Waste)
"Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns."
- Thomas Bulfinch
(Related: Religion, Love, Ambition, Influence, Loyalty, Order, Religious, United)
"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while."
- Luther Burbank
(Related: Change, People, Order)
"Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values."
- Warren E. Burger
(Related: Values, Abuse, Order)
"In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: People, Compassion, Evil, Freedom, Limits, Value)
"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Liberty, Order)
"Good order is the foundation of all things."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Order)
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Society, Nobility, Order)
"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Education, Order)
"I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine."
- Max Burns
(Related: Life, Now, Order, Public, Service)
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
- John Burroughs
(Related: Nature, Order, Senses)
"I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Order)
"In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper."
- Ron D. Burton
(Related: Business, Job, Order, World)
"Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Faith, Heart, Nation)
"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Order, Principles)
"Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Nature, Imperfection, Senses)
"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Money, Enemy, Order, Want)
"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military."
- Smedley Butler
(Related: Animation, Military)
"The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them."
- Rocco Buttiglione
(Related: Family, Women, Care, Children, Order, Protection)
"In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts."
- Herman Cain
(Related: Age, Nation, Order, Retirement, Security, Taxes)
"Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it."
- Herman Cain
(Related: Americans, Information, Media, Order, Reform, Security)
"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."
- John Calvin
(Related: Completion, Joy, Order, Suffering)
"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
- Italo Calvino
(Related: Cities, Order, Traveling)
"Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive."
- Giraldus Cambrensis
(Related: Evil, Mind, Vices)
"I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin."
- Eddie Campbell
(Related: Power)
"I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin."
- Eddie Campbell
(Related: Argument, Queen)
"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."
- Joseph Campbell
(Related: Money, Job, Order)
"My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: God, Israel, Nation, Theology, Want, Will)
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Charity, Generosity, Order, Practice)
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Order, World)
"It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Life, Order)
"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Order, World)
"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."
- Elias Canetti
(Related: Thoughts, Order)
"Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities."
- Chris Cannon
(Related: Possibility, Americans, Cities, Integrity, Nation, Security)
"The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Fact)
"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."
- Anselm of Canterbury
(Related: Order, Will)
"Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: People, American, Learning, Order, Reality, Today)
"Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees."
- Karel Capek
(Related: Indifference, Order)
"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."
- Karel Capek
(Related: Work, Men, Women, Machines, Race, World)
"Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop."
- Vanessa Carlton
(Related: Food, Anxiety, Eating)
"My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Intelligence, Knowledge, Battle, Doubt, Information, Order, Participation, Understanding)
"Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom."
- Stokely Carmichael
(Related: People, Freedom, Now, Order)
"My father's sister never married in order to raise me."
- Marcel Carne
(Related: Father, Sister, Order)
"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Happiness, Order, Pain, Unhappiness)
"I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own."
- John Carpenter
(Related: Money, Movies, Decision, Name, Order, Trade)
"Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence."
- Emily Carr
(Related: Disorder, Magnificence)
"I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention."
- John Le Carre
(Related: Chaos, Order)
"We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another."
- John Le Carre
(Related: Lie, Day, Dress, Order, Present)
"In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Age, Credit, Gain, Order, World)
"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."
- Elliott Carter
(Related: Order)
"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Love, Country)
"God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: God, Order, Principles)
"The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Being, Comparisons, Existence, Memory, Mind, Order)
"My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life."
- Nick Cassavetes
(Related: Life, Daughter, Heart, Disease, Old, Order, Past, Years)
"We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence."
- Rene Cassin
(Related: Men, War, Order, Support, World, World war)
"I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker."
- Ana Castillo
(Related: Reality)
"In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less."
- Carrie Chapman Catt
(Related: Women, Nothing, Order, Voice)
"At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration."
- Nick Cave
(Related: Difference, Focus, Order, Perspective, Today, Want)
"For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses."
- Margaret Cavendish
(Related: Life, Disgust, Disorder, Senses, Yield)
"You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else."
- William Cavendish
(Related: Art, Nature, Strength, Nothing, Order, Spirit)
"We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Business, Law, Open, Will)
"There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Canada, Day, Jobs, states, Trade, United)
"These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Intelligence, Law, states, United)
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Order)
"Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg."
- Joshua Chamberlain
(Related: Men, Day, Enemy, Interest, March, Rumors)
"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Evening, Trees, Vanity)
"I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Gold)
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Order)
"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
- William Ellery Channing
(Related: Ignorance, Order, Pleasure, Pursuit, Smile)
"Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Darkness, Discovery, Order)
"In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between."
- Leslie Charteris
(Related: America, Country, Months)
"Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people."
- Samuel Chase
(Related: Happiness, Peace, Religion, Government, People, Concern, Measure, Order, Public, Safety, Support)
"For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: God, Christ, Man, May, Order)
"When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed."
- Joan Chen
(Related: People, Order, Succeed)
"It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life."
- Cher
(Related: Life, End, Man, Order)
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Democracy, Revolution, Order)
"The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Order)
"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Life, Courage, Man, Order, Paradox)
"Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature."
- Leroy Chiao
(Related: Nature, Order, Running, Space)
"Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face."
- Jacques Chirac
(Related: War, Terrorism)
"Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart."
- Margaret Cho
(Related: Heart, Mind, Order)
"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Order)
"Working with my new coach has helped a lot. I've been a lot more focused and I'm doing all the little things in order to get faster. It's been a total lifestyle change really."
- Tyler Christopher
(Related: Change, Coach, Order)
"Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Environmental, Crime, Nation, Problems, Terrorism, World)
"When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind."
- Ward Churchill
(Related: Children, Countries, Order, Will)
"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Health, Body, Mind)
"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Action, Evil, Man, Order, Violence)
"In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Order)
"Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now."
- Sandra Cisneros
(Related: Life, Time, Challenge, Job, Now, Order, Trying)
"I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there."
- Eric Clapton
(Related: People, Guitar, Sound)
"A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: People, Country, Justice, Law)
"We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour."
- Thomas Clarkson
(Related: God, Purpose, Being, Order)
"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."
- Adam Clayton
(Related: Law, Man, Order, Respect)
"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."
- Georges Clemenceau
(Related: Act, Man, Order, Thinking)
"There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theater actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on."
- George Clooney
(Related: God, Actors, Film, Order, Reality, Theater)
"Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders."
- Nick Clooney
(Related: Affection, Animals, Respect)
"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."
- Chuck Close
(Related: Life, Indecision, Order)
"Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all."
- Frances Power Cobbe
(Related: Work, Class, Old, Order, Race)
"Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States."
- Howard Coble
(Related: states)
"If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements."
- Thomas Cochrane
(Related: Values, Open, Order, Respect)
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Literature, Order)
"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Artist, Order)
"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other."
- J. M. Coetzee
(Related: Order, Suffering)
"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
- Andrew Cohen
(Related: Experience, Man, Order, Woman)
"A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice."
- Sasha Cohen
(Related: Exercise, Help, Injury, Order)
"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
(Related: Order)
"In order to be a top-tier candidate, I need 7.5 million dollars, and I currently have 0.0 million dollars."
- Stephen Colbert
(Related: Order)
"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'"
- Stephen Colbert
(Related: Truth, Facts, Order)
"America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty."
- Bainbridge Colby
(Related: America, Liberty)
"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Order, Words)
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Poetry, Order, Poets, Prose, Words)
"When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal."
- Christiane Collage
(Related: Minority, Order, Right)
"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: People, Company, Disorder, Idleness, Nothing)
"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."
- Jackie Collins
(Related: Order, Research, Writing)
"I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama."
- Joan Collins
(Related: America, Drama, England, Order, Queen)
"Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Life, Time, Theology)
"Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Men, Eyes, Order, Tongue)
"I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Man)
"It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'"
- Arthur H. Compton
(Related: Intelligence, Faith, God, Truth, Beginning, Universe)
"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."
- James Hal Cone
(Related: Faith, Hope, Community, Order, Religious, Tradition)
"I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Disorder, Fight)
"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."
- Cyril Connolly
(Related: Control, Disorder, Memories)
"In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Order, Sensibility)
"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
- Charles Horton Cooley
(Related: Art, Order)
"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
- Charles Horton Cooley
(Related: Conviction, Grace, Man, May, Nothing, Oratory, Order, Tact, Will)
"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."
- Alice Cooper
(Related: Information, Listening, Order, Vote)
"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner."
- James F. Cooper
(Related: Happiness, Action, Being, Freedom, Rights, Individuality, Liberty, Order)
"It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master."
- James F. Cooper
(Related: Men, Fire, Liberty, Misfortune, Necessity, Order, Press)
"Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
(Related: Work, Earth, First, Order, Universe)
"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."
- Le Corbusier
(Related: Men, Light, Order, Sleep, Space)
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
- Le Corbusier
(Related: Architecture, Order)
"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."
- Alan Coren
(Related: Order, Snow, Tourists)
"We need to make sure we have secure borders."
- Bob Corker
"An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Thoughts, Destiny, Example, Order, Past)
"I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control."
- John Cornyn
(Related: Control, English, Language)
"But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are."
- John Cornyn
(Related: People, Countries, Fact, Intentions, Now, states, United, World)
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
- Bill Cosby
(Related: Success, Fear, Failure, Desire, Order, Succeed)
"Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy."
- Jim Costa
(Related: People, Economy, Fact, First, Guest, Reform, Security, Today)
"In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order."
- Jim Costa
(Related: Time, Opportunity, Congress, Nation, Order)
"If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Hate, Hurt, Police, Riot, Speech, University)
"If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?"
- Ann Coulter
"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
(Related: Day, Order, Population, World)
"If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder."
- Courteney Cox
(Related: Disorder, Eating, Weight)
"Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that."
- Hart Crane
(Related: Development, Doubt, Present)
"It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form."
- Hart Crane
(Related: Time, Energy, Order, Patience)
"It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight."
- Martin Van Creveld
(Related: War, People, End, Fact, Fight, May, Order)
"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."
- Francis Crick
(Related: Order, Study)
"No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so."
- Stafford Cripps
(Related: Government, Chaos, Disorder, Opinion, Violence, Will)
"It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves."
- Stafford Cripps
(Related: People, Progress, Self)
"I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds."
- Quentin Crisp
(Related: Being, Cause, Force, Order)
"The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest."
- Herbert Croly
(Related: Interest, Order, Property)
"You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Art, Artist, Order, Saying)
"Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure."
- George Crumb
(Related: Diversity, Future, Present, Sense, Will)
"The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected."
- John Culberson
(Related: People, National security)
"This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears."
- John Culberson
(Related: Time, Country, First)
"The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents."
- John Culberson
"Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority."
- John Culberson
(Related: Authority, Law, Protection, State, states, United)
"Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State."
- John Culberson
(Related: Protection, State)
"Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders."
- John Culberson
(Related: America)
"There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait."
- Countee Cullen
(Related: Success, Work, Hard work, Order, Succeed, Writer)
"And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use."
- Jamie Lee Curtis
(Related: Feeling, Order)
"It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition."
- Caleb Cushing
(Related: Denial, Mind, Order, Rejection, Right)
"Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy."
- Edward Dahlberg
(Related: Men, People, Justice, Man)
"The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
- Richard J. Daley
(Related: Disorder)
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
- Richard J. Daley
(Related: Disorder, Police)
"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
- Salvador Dali
(Related: Dreams, Cause, Eyes, Man, Order, Television)
"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."
- Salvador Dali
(Related: Society, Love, Talent, Order, Respect, Right, Youth)
"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
(Related: Time, Order, Succeed)
"The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
(Related: People, Ideas, Order, Will)
"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
(Related: Leader, Order)
"In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare."
- Georges Jacques Danton
(Related: Order)
"Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!"
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Death, Heart, May, Nothing, Order, Wrong)
"I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish."
- Larry David
(Related: First, Fish, Night, Order)
"The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised."
- Ron Davies
(Related: Freedom, Rights, Party, Speech)
"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
- Bette Davis
(Related: Work, Order)
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
- Bette Davis
(Related: Work, Order)
"Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us."
- Evan Davis
(Related: Men, Women, Order)
"Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby."
- Fred Davis
(Related: Living)
"The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am."
- Richard H. Davis
(Related: Son, Gentleman, Now, Old, Pride)
"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."
- Peter Davison
(Related: Art, Order)
"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Nature, Being, Culture, Divinity, Grace, Humanism, Order)
"Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Love, Fear, Order)
"I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Values, Democrats, Hypocrisy, Order, Will)
"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."
- James Dean
(Related: Acting, Actor)
"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet."
- James Dean
(Related: Life, Actor, Fact, Feet, Order)
"Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Family, America, Cancer, Research, World)
"Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order."
- Maurice Denis
(Related: Battle, Order, Painting)
"We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders."
- Dorothy Denning
(Related: Government, Court, Gain, Privacy)
"One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life."
- Morarji Desai
(Related: Food, Life, Man, Order)
"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
- Rene Descartes
(Related: Mind, Order)
"I just love the storyline, I thought it was hilarious - I loved that part when we opened the door, we all look ahead and we have to look down and see that we're actually dealing with this little boy who did this horrible thing of ordering a wife through e-mail."
- Caroline Dhavernas
(Related: Love, Wife, Thought)
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Time, Determination, Diligence, Habits, Order, Punctuality)
"In 2003, the value of Airbus's orders was more than twice as much as Boeing's."
- Norm Dicks
(Related: Value)
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: People, Control, Order)
"To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!"
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Love, Desire, Destruction, End, Folly, Nothing, Order)
"Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Men, Quality, Genius, Disorder, Machine)
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Order, Will)
"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."
- Joan Didion
(Related: Life, Children, Fancy, Order, Writers)
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it."
- Ani DiFranco
(Related: Order, Reality)
"People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real."
- Ani DiFranco
(Related: People, Order)
"All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time."
- Otto Dix
(Related: Art, Dreams, Time, Chaos, Effort, Order, Painting, Visions)
"Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this."
- Pete Domenici
(Related: Congress, Needs)
"Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody."
- Vincent D'Onofrio
(Related: Law, Order, Psychology)
"President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Country, First, Needs, Order, President, Retirement, Security)
"In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked."
- Carl Clinton Van Doren
(Related: Death, Conquest, Fiction)
"Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Adversity, Being, Literature, Oppression, Order, Words)
"In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Wisdom, Ignorance, Order)
"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves."
- Marie Dressler
(Related: Life, Order)
"We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible."
- John Drinkwater
(Related: Poetry, Art, Order, Result, Words)
"There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so."
- John Drinkwater
(Related: Knowledge, Conviction, Judgment, Order, Proof, Words)
"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
- Marcel Duchamp
(Related: Order, Taste)
"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."
- John Foster Dulles
(Related: Aggression, Order)
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live."
- Alexander Dumas
(Related: Death, Order)
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
- Alexandre Dumas
(Related: Happiness, Fight, Order)
"The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it."
- Alan Dundes
(Related: Class, Order, Reading, Running, Years)
"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos."
- Will Durant
(Related: Civilization, Chaos, Liberty, Order)
"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
- Will Durant
(Related: Civilization, Freedom, Order)
"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."
- Will Durant
(Related: Age, Discovery, Freedom, Liberty, Old, Order, Stress, Youth)
"For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence."
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
(Related: People, Fiction, Man, Order, State)
"I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want."
- Lou Duva
(Related: Family, Religion, Order, Want)
"And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Now, Order, World)
"Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Order)
"When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order."
- Meister Eckhart
(Related: Attitude, Order)
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
- Thomas A. Edison
(Related: Death, Science, War, Day, Force, Machine, Man, Order, Spring, Will)
"I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that."
- Kenneth Edmonds
(Related: Music, Order)
"Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race."
- Blake Edwards
(Related: Emotion, Order, Race, Shame)
"We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone."
- Jan Egeland
(Related: Zone)
"Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think."
- Adolf Eichmann
(Related: Life, Being, Living, Now)
"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Nature, Order, Variety)
"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Order, Sheep)
"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Appearance, Discovery, Feeling, Intuition, Laws, Lying, Order)
"There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Successful, Court, Defiance, Rights)
"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Hope, Force, Nations, Order, United, Will, World)
"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: American, Troops)
"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
- George Eliot
(Related: Quality, May, Order, Paradoxes, Play)
"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."
- Jacques Ellul
(Related: Technology, Civilization, Efficiency, Force, Necessity, Order)
"The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist."
- Friedrich Engels
(Related: Freedom, Order, State)
"What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?"
- Ted W. Engstrom
(Related: Time, Strategy, Importance, Order, Projects, Results, Want)
"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school."
- Brian Eno
(Related: Art, Thought, Magic, School)
"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."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Letters, Mail, Order)
"Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: People, Israel, Prosperity, Security, State)
"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."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: Order)
"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Attitude, Order)
"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Order)
"We adore chaos because we love to produce order."
- M. C. Escher
(Related: Love, Chaos, Order)
"Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate."
- Leonhard Euler
(Related: Day, Mathematicians, Mind, Mystery, Numbers, Order, Reason, Will)
"My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: Work, Order)
"The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing."
- William Falconer
(Related: Battle, Being, Circumstance, Order, Will)
"In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Fact, Order, Poor, Solidarity, World)
"As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders."
- Louis Farrakhan
(Related: Control, Islam, America, Direction, Leaders, Result)
"America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed."
- Louis Farrakhan
(Related: America, Will)
"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."
- William Faulkner
(Related: Dream, Gods, Conscience, Gain, Man, Order, Right)
"When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us."
- William Feather
(Related: Rest)
"The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair."
- Leo Fender
(Related: Design, Thought, Order)
"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."
- Francois Fenelon
(Related: Thoughts, Order, Saying, Taste, Words)
"Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves."
- Rio Ferdinand
(Related: Thought, Order, Will)
"Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second."
- Helen Fielding
(Related: Idea, Day, Dieting, New year, Order)
"All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it."
- Charles Fillmore
(Related: Causes, Order, Thinking)
"These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools."
- Bob Filner
(Related: War, Behavior, Drugs, Fight, Tools)
"No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural."
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Related: Work, People, Challenge, Expectations, Order)
"I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music."
- Neil Finn
(Related: Music, Order, Struggle)
"This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate."
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
(Related: Father, Devotion, Order, Race, Republican, State, Will)
"Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Information, Protection)
"Read in order to live."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Order)
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Purpose, Children, Order)
"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Work, Life, May)
"A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Man, Order, Will)
"The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution."
- John T. Flynn
(Related: Cause, Revolution, Key, Order)
"It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events."
- Dario Fo
(Related: Events, Limits, Open, Talk)
"A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."
- B. C. Forbes
(Related: Business, Order, Results)
"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Art, Opinion, Order, Universe)
"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."
- Lukas Foss
(Related: Art, Science, Emotion, Intellect, Order)
"Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?"
- John W. Foster
(Related: Time, Books, Economy, First, Importance, Order, Reading, Reason)
"Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Now)
"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."
- John Fowler
(Related: Order, Today)
"When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married."
- Megan Fox
(Related: HusbPeople, Eyes, Old, Order, Talk)
"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Idea, Chance, Order, Television, Want)
"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination."
- Janet Frame
(Related: Imagination, Writing, Years)
"The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Government, Discipline, Police)
"In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement."
- Hans Frank
(Related: People, Greatness, Victory, Country, Fanaticism, Man, Order)
"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Day, Deep, Judgment, May, Order, Today, Yesterday)
"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Force, Man, Mind, Order, Police)
"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: May, Order, Today, Tomorrow)
"If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past."
- John Hope Franklin
(Related: Order, Past, Present)
"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: Crime, Order, Trying, Writing)
"My purpose was to get leave to bring my party into the settlements in order to outfit and to obtain the supplies that had now become necessary."
- John Charles Fremont
(Related: Purpose, Now, Order, Party)
"The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels."
- William Friedkin
(Related: Work, Actor, Actors, Communication, Direction, First, Order)
"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way."
- Milton Friedman
(Related: Government, Civilization, Order, Self, Theory, World)
"I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature."
- Caspar David Friedrich
(Related: Nature, Order)
"A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism."
- Fred W. Friendly
(Related: Lie, Journalism)
"This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Peace, Truth, Management, Cooperation, Legislation, Water)
"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."
- Lynette Fromme
(Related: Order, Right)
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Books, Order, Talk, Writer)
"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words."
- Northrop Frye
(Related: Time, Nature, Science, Discovery, Order, Words)
"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror."
- Carlos Fuentes
(Related: Horror, Order)
"In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run."
- Toshihiko Fukui
(Related: Fact)
"When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: Encouraging, Disorder, Law, May)
"Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: Legal, Behavior, Law, Order, Stability)
"Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: Law, Order, Stability)
"Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Thoughts, Judgment, Memory, Nothing, Order, Want)
"There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights."
- Muammar al Gaddafi
(Related: Life, Driving, End, Revolution, Rights, Man, Order, Woman, World)
"Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow."
- Ernest Gaines
(Related: Help, Hurt, Order)
"The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe."
- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Power, Opportunity, Vision, Europe, Order)
"In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash."
- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Home, Business, Daughter, Deep, Order, Today, World)
"While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Laws, Nations, Open)
"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."
- George Galloway
(Related: Order, President)
"It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Day, Order)
"There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Being, Blind, Law, Living, Universe)
"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Life, Development, Law, Man, Order)
"What people want, above all, is order."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: People, Order, Want)
"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Order)
"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: American, Necessity, Order, Style)
"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: First, Man, Order, World)
"A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship."
- Martin Gardner
(Related: Work, God, Creation, Order, Worship)
"When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll."
- Art Garfunkel
(Related: Home, First, Friends)
"I'm the original take-orders girl."
- Judy Garland
"We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves."
- Kevin Garnett
(Related: Coaches, Order, Responsibility, Weight)
"In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
(Related: Life, Man, Order, Will)
"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
(Related: May, Order, Succeed)
"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
(Related: Difficulties, Existence, Order)
"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
(Related: Life, Virtue, Evil, Meaning, Nothing, Order, Will, Words)
"I shut my eyes in order to see."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Eyes, Order)
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
- Charles de Gaulle
(Related: Order)
"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
(Related: Darkness, Order)
"We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households."
- Timothy Geithner
(Related: Home, Failure, Financial, Values, Consequences, Credit, Economy, Pressure)
"The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe."
- Timothy Geithner
(Related: Financial, Economy, Needs, Order, Rest, Trade, World)
"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: People)
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
- Jean Genet
(Related: Time, Dream, Act, Darkness, Man, Order)
"In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind."
- Richard Gere
(Related: Being, Mind, Order, Stability)
"The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: Appetite, Country, Danger, states, Support, Terrorism, United, Weapons, World)
"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order."
- David Gerrold
(Related: Life, Order)
"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."
- Elbridge Gerry
(Related: People, Army, Rights, Liberty, Order)
"I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do."
- Alberto Giacometti
(Related: Work, Order, Want)
"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: Content, Nothing, Songs)
"Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders."
- Leeza Gibbons
(Related: Community, Day, Help, Memory)
"A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France."
- Philip Gibbs
(Related: Time, War, Friend, Books, France, Office)
"I was the law and order."
- Frank Gifford
(Related: Law, Order)
"These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months."
- Humphrey Gilbert
(Related: People, Career, Months, Order, Will)
"In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: American, Living, Order, Public)
"Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails."
- Ian Gilmour
(Related: Power, Order, Politicians, Quest, Wind)
"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Discipline, Management, Order, World)
"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Life, Death, Order, Play)
"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."
- William E. Gladstone
(Related: Experience, Sympathy, Ideas, Desire, Freedom, Generations, Loyalty, Order)
"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."
- Jean-Luc Godard
(Related: Beginning, End, Order)
"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Destiny, Order, Wishes)
"To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order."
- Joe Gold
(Related: Peace, Time, Order, Running)
"Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce."
- Natalie Goldberg
(Related: Life, Love, Right)
"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."
- Samuel Gompers
(Related: Order, Right, Wrong)
"The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Americans, Energy, Fact, Independence, Priorities, Rank, Security, Sense, states, United)
"As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: American, Focus, Nation, Public, Reform)
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."
- Ellen Goodman
(Related: Car, Work, Clothes, Day, Driving, Job, Order)
"The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Work, History, People, Idea, Deep)
"Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Life)
"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Curiosity)
"So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Now, Visit, Will)
"So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Design, People, Joy, Reward)
"That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Design, Work, People, Frustration)
"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Home)
"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Design, People, Positive, Moods, Relationships)
"There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Difference, Training)
"We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Time, Thought, Bugs, Now, Stress)
"You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: People, Forget, Hair, Kids, Want)
"It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Community, Living, Pride, Public, Taste)
"The birth of any show is always a rough one."
- Genevieve Gorder
"But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: People, Neighbors, Open, Relationships)
"I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Idea, Positive, Solution, Trying, Years)
"It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Design, Money, Power, People, Reality, Spirit, Television)
"Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: People, Being)
"I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Thought, People)
"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Design, People)
"I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded."
- Genevieve Gorder
"I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Negative, Country, Forget)
"I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Work, Right, Want, Will)
"I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Love, Work)
"I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: End, Summer, Will, Writing)
"I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Being, Giving, Sound, Talk)
"And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Deep, Goodbye, Relationships, Saying)
"The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder."
- Al Gore
(Related: Day, Internet, Night)
"Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: Women, Society, Americans, Dieting, Eating, Self)
"Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: Medical, Children, Consequences, Eating, Parents)
"I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity."
- Edward Gorey
(Related: Order)
"I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me."
- Ryan Gosling
(Related: Character, Order, Play)
"Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order."
- John Gotti
(Related: Managers, Media, Order)
"In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing."
- Remy de Gourmont
(Related: Life, Men, Nothing, Order, Trees)
"For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing."
- Juan Goytisolo
(Related: Country, Earth, Order, Sense, Writing)
"The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there."
- Betty Grable
(Related: Women, Practice)
"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
- Baltasar Gracian
(Related: Envy, May, Order)
"Autism is an extremely variable disorder."
- Temple Grandin
(Related: Disorder)
"Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order."
- Cary Grant
(Related: Job, Order)
"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."
- Robert Graves
(Related: Cure, May, Medicine, Prevention)
"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."
- Asa Gray
(Related: Idea, Knowledge, Beliefs, Books, Duty, May, Observation, Order)
"It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order."
- Asa Gray
(Related: Men, Attitude, Christian, Beliefs, Order, Thoughtful)
"I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God."
- Spalding Gray
(Related: Life, God, Control, Artist, Memories, Order)
"I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that."
- Judd Gregg
(Related: Environmental, Order, Priorities, Protection)
"Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural."
- Henri Gregoire
(Related: Kings, Order)
"As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed."
- William Greider
(Related: Democracy, Order, Rituals, World)
"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Chaos, Order)
"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."
- Thomas Griffith
(Related: Disorder, Journalism, Reality)
"If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation."
- Raul Grijalva
(Related: Policy, Debate, Nation, Problems, Security)
"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."
- Angelina Grimke
(Related: Order, Reading)
"Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored."
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Related: May, Order, Wrong)
"Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go."
- Bill Gross
(Related: Company, Economy, Future, Inflation, Order, Safety, Trying, Want)
"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."
- Umberto Guidoni
(Related: Order, Space, Want)
"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican."
- Alma Guillermoprieto
(Related: Work, Gardens, Pretty, Restaurants, Shops, states, United, Will)
"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
- David Ben Gurion
(Related: Israel, Miracles, Order)
"We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation."
- Arlo Guthrie
(Related: People, Circumstances, World)
"People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: Power, People, Control, Order)
"The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order."
- Jurgen Habermas
(Related: Government, Law, Order, Terrorism)
"And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world."
- Taylor Hackford
(Related: Ego, Order, Question, World)
"In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time."
- David Hackworth
(Related: Men, Time, Order)
"There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great."
- Marvin Hagler
(Related: Work, Boxing, Focus, Media, Order, Respect, Want, World)
"The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer."
- Franz Halder
(Related: Enemy, Order, Will)
"In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it."
- Ludovic Halevy
(Related: Money, First, Order)
"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
- Edward Hall
(Related: Order, Violence)
"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave."
- Joseph Hall
(Related: Death, Grave)
"A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet."
- Chico Hamilton
(Related: Music, Work, Musicians, Order, Play, Will)
"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated."
- Dag Hammarskjold
(Related: Life, Being, Duty, Living, Right)
"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."
- Dag Hammarskjold
(Related: Truth, Fact, Order, Support)
"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."
- Nhat Hanh
(Related: People, Enemies, Enemy, Order, Will)
"Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on."
- Hanoi Hannah
(Related: Life, War, Idea, Nothing)
"You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit."
- Daniel Hannan
(Related: Economy, Order)
"I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl."
- Angie Harmon
(Related: Movies, Order, Want)
"There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders."
- Stephen Harper
(Related: Canada, Culture)
"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."
- Phil Harris
(Related: Order, Sound)
"Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed."
- Townsend Harris
(Related: Commerce, Countries, First, May, Order)
"It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror."
- Dennis Hastert
(Related: Time, War, Friends, Help, Job, Order, Terror, Tools, Troops, Will)
"Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal."
- Alcee Hastings
(Related: Goal, Israel, Killing, Soldiers)
"Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture."
- Orrin Hatch
(Related: People, Policy, Values, Culture, Judges, Law, Laws, Order, Public, Public policy, Right)
"A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change."
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
(Related: Change, Family, Needs, Open, Order)
"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising."
- Vaclav Havel
(Related: Drama, Order)
"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."
- Stephen Hawking
(Related: History, Science, Events, May, Order)
"Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development."
- Jeff Hawkins
(Related: Development, Growth)
"Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order."
- Friedrich August von Hayek
(Related: Equality, Determination, Economy, Inequality, Order, Result)
"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Habit, Order, Talk)
"I cry out for order and find it only in art."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Art, Order)
"The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: American, Republican)
"Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: War, Terror)
"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Art, Life, Being, Deception, May, Order, Succeed)
"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Heart, May, Order, Pride, Respect, Tyranny)
"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."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Order, Thinking)
"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Truth, Man, May, Order)
"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."
- Seamus Heaney
(Related: Poetry, Order)
"I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks."
- Patty Hearst
(Related: Disorder, Free will, Post, Stress)
"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."
- Mitch Hedberg
(Related: Order, Stairs)
"I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state."
- Dave Heineman
(Related: Work, Family, Ideas, Thoughts, First, State, Will)
"Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order."
- Gustav Heinemann
(Related: Hope, Insecurity, Order, Resignation)
"Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about."
- Joseph Heller
(Related: Delay, Order, Worry)
"Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it."
- Levon Helm
(Related: Error, Play, Song)
"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Order, Routine)
"Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Life, HusbCancer, Order)
"The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?"
- Arthur Henderson
(Related: Peace, Order, Question)
"The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace."
- Arthur Henderson
(Related: Peace, Anarchy, Conflict, Order, Struggle, World)
"To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order."
- Arthur Henderson
(Related: Peace, Law, Order, World)
"In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Change, First, Order, World)
"You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Love, Time, People, Order, Singing, Words)
"I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism."
- Barbara Hepworth
(Related: Purpose, Order, Pleasure, Realism, Space)
"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation."
- Auberon Herbert
(Related: Career, Nation, Order, Want)
"Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad."
- Arthur Hertzberg
(Related: Government, War, Being, Fight, Teaching)
"Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Civilization, First, Order, Slavery)
"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Absurdity, Childhood, Insanity, Italy)
"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."
- Hesiod
(Related: Disorder, Enemy)
"In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent."
- Victor Francis Hess
(Related: Progress, Effort, Order, Will)
"In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: Being, Energy, Fact, Order)
"This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: First, Laws, Leading, Order, Uncertainty)
"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning."
- Hermann Hesse
(Related: Faith, History, Chaos, Meaning, Order, Study)
"I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Sacrifice, People, Idea, Strength, Willpower, Heroism, Years)
"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Ideas, Eyes, Light, Order)
"Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day."
- Etty Hillesum
(Related: Day, Order, Will)
"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."
- Heinrich Himmler
(Related: Europe, Germany, Today)
"The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Health, Education, Quality, People, Care, Jobs, Water)
"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Time, People, Idea, Living, Order)
"Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R."
- Christopher Hitchens
(Related: Technology, Defense, Order)
"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."
- Edward Hoagland
(Related: Possibility, Open, Order)
"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."
- David Hobson
(Related: Garden, Order, Right, Winter)
"Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth."
- John Hoeven
(Related: People, Wealth, Order)
"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Nature, Creativity, Ability, Order)
"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Nation)
"An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea."
- Hans Hofmann
(Related: Idea, Expression, Help, Order)
"In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results."
- Harri Holkeri
(Related: Change, People, Confidence, Order, Questions, Results)
"No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it."
- Raymond Holliwell
(Related: Life, Order, Want)
"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."
- Katie Holmes
(Related: Beach, Order, Restaurants, Summer)
"The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department."
- Harold Edward Holt
(Related: War, Sister, Cooperation, Effort, Help, Order)
"After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault."
- John B. Hood
(Related: Battle, Career, First, Military, Protest)
"They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though."
- Peter Hook
(Related: Time, Order)
"When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up."
- Peter Hook
(Related: Time, Work, Balance, Order)
"Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing."
- Peter Hook
(Related: Order, Writing)
"Justice is incidental to law and order."
- J. Edgar Hoover
(Related: Justice, Law, Order)
"If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them."
- Samuel Hopkins
(Related: Folly, Humanity, Justice, Open, Order, Rules, Sin, Trouble)
"I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living."
- Alan Hovhaness
(Related: Living, Order)
"I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order."
- Cal Hubbard
(Related: Order)
"In order to have friends, you must first be one."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: First, Friends, Order)
"Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides."
- Ruth Hubbard
(Related: Experience, Prophecy, Self, Theory)
"Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order."
- Carl Hubbell
(Related: Order)
"However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems."
- Robert Huber
(Related: Community, Disorder, Flexibility, Years)
"You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order."
- Mike Huckabee
(Related: Hope, Heroes, Order)
"Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place."
- Garth Hudson
(Related: Music, Country, Order, Play)
"It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Order, Right, Woman)
"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order."
- Johan Huizinga
(Related: Wisdom, Wealth, Earth, Heaven, Order, Pursuit, Security)
"Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order."
- Basil Hume
(Related: Decision, Choices, Order, Reason, Right)
"Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control."
- John Hume
(Related: People, Control, Order, Public)
"Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports."
- Joseph Hume
(Related: Desire, End, May, Order)
"The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society."
- Claudio Hummes
(Related: Power, Society, History, Church, Exercise, Order)
"We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all."
- Claudio Hummes
(Related: Justice, Open, Order, Prosperity, World)
"One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door."
- Duncan Hunter
(Related: People, Country, Crime, State, Want)
"I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue."
- Duncan Hunter
(Related: Security)
"Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California."
- Duncan Hunter
(Related: Land)
"A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness."
- Duncan Hunter
(Related: People, Israel)
"Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Home, Man)
"We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
(Related: War, People, Enemy, Fighting, World)
"I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
(Related: Office, Order, President, Reputation)
"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight."
- Douglas Hurd
(Related: Government, War, Democracy, Fight, May, Needs, Questions, Support, Wrong)
"I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick."
- John Hurt
(Related: Actors, Being, End, Months, Order, Play, Research)
"I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films."
- John Hurt
(Related: Finance, Money, Now, Order)
"Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders."
- King Hussein I
(Related: Destiny, Example, Play, State, Will)
"Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking."
- John Hutton
(Related: Change, Now, Order)
"And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers."
- John Hutton
(Related: Business, Goals, Legislators, Order, Past)
"Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: Life, Truth, Strength, Freedom, Order)
"Learn what is true in order to do what is right."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: Order, Right)
"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Patriotism, Country, Feeling)
"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
(Related: Work, Inspiration, Order)
"With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Family, Technology, Action, American, Energy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Order, Wage, World)
"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."
- Muhammad Iqbal
(Related: Plants)
"It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band."
- Jack Irons
(Related: Time, Anxiety, Beginnings, Disorder, Problems)
"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
- John Irving
(Related: First, Order, Responsibility, Right, Want)
"Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about."
- Steve Israel
(Related: People, Living, Nothing, Shadows)
"Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Laws, Nation)
"It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption."
- Darrell Issa
(Related: Business, Money, Politics, Power, Government, People, American, Care, Corruption, Crime, Fact, Order, Party)
"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."
- Molly Ivins
(Related: Confusion, Democracy, Quiet)
"Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order."
- George Jackson
(Related: Order, Today, Victims)
"In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down."
- Jesse Jackson
(Related: History, Order)
"I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?"
- Michael Jackson
(Related: Disorder, Help, Skin)
"Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Robert Jackson
(Related: Heart, Freedom, Order, Right, Shadow)
"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!"
- Derek Jacobi
(Related: Order)
"There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served."
- Jane Jacobs
(Related: Quality, Disorder, Ugliness)
"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture."
- Arne Jacobsen
(Related: Architecture, Deep, Houses, Necessity, Order, Play, Today, Windows)
"When I speak it is in order to be heard."
- Roman Jakobson
(Related: Order)
"What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order."
- P. D. James
(Related: Murder, Order)
"We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded."
- Calamity Jane
(Related: Soldiers)
"I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out."
- Famke Janssen
(Related: Work, People, Order)
"The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls."
- Karl Jaspers
(Related: Life, Community, Order)
"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Peace, Abstinence, America, Order, Present, Will)
"The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order."
- Jim Jeffords
(Related: Tax, Nation, Order, Priorities, Tax cuts)
"For me, poetry is always a search for order."
- Elizabeth Jennings
(Related: Poetry, Order)
"If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all."
- Penn Jillette
(Related: Alcohol, Drugs, Order, Wine)
"In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders."
- Bobby Jindal
"The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Country, Terrorism, Today)
"There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders."
- Mike Johanns
(Related: Country)
"When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef."
- Mike Johanns
"My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea."
- Mike Johanns
(Related: Goal)
"In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen."
- Donald Johanson
(Related: Discovery, Order, Will)
"In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself."
- Darren L. Johnson
(Related: Change, Time, Actions, Habits, Order)
"In order to grow, you must learn to let go and strive toward something greater."
- Darren L. Johnson
(Related: Order)
"Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace."
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
(Related: Peace, Women, Countries, Country, First, Focus, Order, Trying)
"I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: American, Order, states, United)
"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."
- Nancy Johnson
(Related: Order, Pretty)
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Time, Man, Order, Reading, Will, Writer)
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Men, Truth, May, Order)
"We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Order)
"People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around."
- Davy Jones
(Related: People, Being)
"In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things."
- E. Stanley Jones
(Related: Action, Beliefs, Order)
"We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: Change, Circumstances, Future, Innovation, Order, Party, Traditions)
"There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: People, Decision, American, Community, Law, Order, President, states, United)
"All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Order)
"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."
- James Prescott Joule
(Related: Order)
"Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God."
- James Prescott Joule
(Related: God, Order, Universe, Will)
"In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen."
- Mike Judge
(Related: Conflict, Order)
"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Danger, Evil, Man, Nothing, Order, Promises, Road)
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Chaos, Cosmos, Disorder)
"I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life."
- Janos Kadar
(Related: Life, Work, Deeds, Example, Man, Order, Production)
"It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class."
- Janos Kadar
(Related: Anger, Power, People, Class, Country, Order)
"From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process."
- Herman Kahn
(Related: Age, War, Earth, Mankind, Order, Perspective)
"But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space."
- Gil Kane
(Related: Art, People, Jobs, Order, Space)
"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
- Immanuel Kant
(Related: Knowledge, Belief, Order)
"The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not."
- Louise J. Kaplan
(Related: Order)
"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: Feelings, Contempt, Order)
"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: Death, Enemies)
"We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests."
- Carl Karcher
(Related: Blind, Guests, Help)
"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."
- Kim Kardashian
(Related: Order, Rumors)
"The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June."
- Janis Karpinski
(Related: End, First, July, June, Mission)
"I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous."
- Janis Karpinski
"Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials."
- Garry Kasparov
(Related: Power, People, Abuse, Russia, State, Want)
"Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals."
- Moshe Katsav
(Related: Goals, Order, World)
"I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future."
- David Kay
(Related: Intelligence, Time, Future, Order)
"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
(Related: First, Order, Succeed)
"There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south."
- Denis Kearney
"We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason."
- Philip Kearny
(Related: Cowardice, Enemy, Order, Treason)
"I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat."
- Philip Kearny
(Related: Old, Order, Protest)
"On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted."
- Ric Keller
"Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it."
- Ric Keller
(Related: Congress)
"Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed."
- Ric Keller
(Related: Congress)
"Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life."
- Florence Kelley
(Related: Life, Women, Effort, May, Order)
"In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment."
- Florence Kelley
(Related: Chance, Man, Order)
"He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine."
- Kitty Kelley
"The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals."
- Fanny Kemble
(Related: Animals, Blood, Inheritance, Man, Order, Race)
"The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed."
- Fanny Kemble
(Related: Government, Time, People, Successful, Discontent, Spirit)
"I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with."
- William Kempe
(Related: People, Being, Collaboration, Freedom, Order, Projects)
"We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces."
- Henry W. Kendall
(Related: Act, Faces, Order)
"There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie."
- Jamie Kennedy
(Related: Horror, Order, Rules)
"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Home, Success, Hope, Adversity, Democracy, Freedom, Israel, Order, Will)
"The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat."
- Mark Kennedy
(Related: Security)
"The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment."
- Johannes Kepler
(Related: Nature, Diversity, Mind, Order)
"Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country."
- John F. Kerry
(Related: Being, Country, Law, Order, President, Responsibility, Talking)
"The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India."
- Aly Khan
(Related: Act, Existence, Order, Privilege, Protest)
"One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Work, Attention, Congress, First, Help, Order)
"We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Men, Women, People, Chance, Future, Military)
"In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order."
- Florence King
(Related: Etiquette, Order)
"Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know."
- Kerry King
(Related: Forbidden, Fun, Order)
"Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively."
- Larry King
(Related: Life, Control, Confusion, Order)
"Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities."
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
(Related: Facts, Order)
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Progress, Purpose, Justice, Law, Order)
"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Community, Conscience, Imprisonment, Injustice, Law, Order, Reality, Respect)
"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Community, Conscience, Imprisonment, Injustice, Law, Order, Reality, Respect)
"We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe."
- Alfred Kinsey
(Related: Facts, Judges)
"In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today."
- Lincoln Kirstein
(Related: Dance, Anarchy, Authority, Democracy, Expression, Freedom, Liberal, Necessity, Order, Today)
"When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it."
- Allen Klein
(Related: People, Order)
"The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism."
- Lawrence R. Klein
(Related: Attention, Building, Committee, Order, Research, states, Trade, United, World)
"In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience."
- Randal Kleiser
(Related: Now, Order, Style, Today)
"Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease."
- Jurgen Klinsmann
(Related: Fitness, Order)
"I train for one-and-a-half hours every day in order to keep my energy level high."
- Jurgen Klinsmann
(Related: Day, Energy, Order)
"In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that."
- Jurgen Klinsmann
(Related: People, Advice, Coach, Decisions, Order, Years)
"The army is under orders to defend every place."
- Helmut Kohl
(Related: Army)
"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves."
- Willem de Kooning
(Related: Nature, Attitude, Hope, Artist, Order)
"There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together."
- C. Everett Koop
(Related: Family, Jobs, May, Order, Parents)
"The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary."
- Lajos Kossuth
(Related: Commanders, Constitution, Fidelity, Obedience, Troops)
"The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Order, Sound, World)
"Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission."
- Charles Krauthammer
(Related: American, Mission, Order, Poor, Value)
"I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Dreams, Listening, Song)
"What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations."
- Fritz Kreisler
(Related: Liberty, Mob, Order, Police, Relaxation)
"Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors."
- Fritz Kreisler
(Related: Wife, Colors, Day, Duty, Order, Years)
"My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations."
- Fritz Kreisler
(Related: Wife, Being, Hospitals, Order)
"My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life."
- Thomas Kretschmann
(Related: Life, Gain, Newspapers, Order, Reputation)
"Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience."
- Gustav Krupp
(Related: Experience, Time, Work, Loss, Order, Years)
"Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order."
- Hans Kung
(Related: Humanity, Order, Spiritual, Today)
"It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself."
- Karolina Kurkova
(Related: Business, Day, Fight, Order)
"As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up."
- Ray Kurzweil
(Related: Time, Order)
"Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world."
- Polykarp Kusch
(Related: Beauty, Science, Truth, Day, Order, Wonder, World)
"Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups."
- Aleksander Kwasniewski
(Related: War, Country, Minority, Murder, Tragedy, World, World war)
"I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do."
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
(Related: Country, Order)
"Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources."
- Jon Kyl
(Related: Health, Control, Care, Commitment, Law)
"But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it."
- Karl Lagerfeld
(Related: Imagination, Order)
"We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Understanding, World)
"On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border."
- Jhumpa Lahiri
(Related: Safety, Trees)
"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
- R. D. Laing
(Related: Experience, Strategy, Behavior, Order)
"We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Success, Challenge, Order, Yesterday)
"The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Success, Actor, Hollywood, Leading, Man, Order, Press, Sleep)
"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Death, Fear, Order)
"I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy."
- Johann Heinrich Lambert
(Related: Books, First, Order, Philosophy, Principles)
"I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction."
- Nick Lampson
(Related: Strength, Destruction, Nation, Potential, Weapons, Will)
"More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air."
- Nick Lampson
(Related: Enemy, Fight, Land, Needs, Protection, Sea)
"I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest."
- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Genius, Action, Conviction, Merit, Self, Youth)
"A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract."
- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Education, Purpose, Difficulty, Order, Party, Will)
"But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Love, Work, Order, Want)
"He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered."
- Ring Lardner
"As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring."
- Rick Larsen
(Related: Benefits, Force, Games, State, Will)
"My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce."
- Rick Larsen
(Related: Travel, Goal, Commerce)
"We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services."
- John Larson
(Related: Successful, Ability, Investment, Marketing, Order)
"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Possibility, Americans, Order, Sense, Today)
"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Business, Conservation, Innovation, Order)
"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Crisis, Effect, Order, Rhetoric)
"When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place."
- Yusef Lateef
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Body, Mind, Order)
"Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy."
- Comte de Lautreamont
(Related: Desire, Despair, Literature, Order, Sense)
"It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal."
- Pierre Laval
(Related: Europe, France, May, Order, Will)
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Related: Friendship, Love, Genius, Difference, Order, Taste)
"So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers."
- Linda Lavin
(Related: Work, Drama, Order, Production, School)
"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."
- William Law
(Related: Order)
"To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone."
- Louis Leakey
(Related: Life, May, Order)
"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance."
- Richard Leakey
(Related: Anarchy, Military, Police)
"It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel."
- David Leavitt
(Related: Instinct, Order, Prose, World)
"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."
- Aleksandr Lebed
(Related: Democracy, Generations, Order, Years)
"On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy."
- Ang Lee
(Related: People, Democracy, Film, Questions, Want)
"With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly."
- Geddy Lee
(Related: Technology, Help, Order)
"In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction."
- Janet Leigh
(Related: Truth, Dream, Facts, Fiction, Order, Reality)
"A month before the season, I don't order fries with my club sandwich."
- Mario Lemeiux
(Related: Order)
"Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot."
- Ivan Lendl
(Related: Time, Order)
"I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously."
- Jonathan Lethem
(Related: Order, Writing)
"Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives."
- David Letterman
(Related: Daughter, Baby, Order, Wives)
"Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive."
- Eliphas Levi
(Related: Attention, Disorder)
"Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq."
- Carl Levin
(Related: Intelligence, War, Action, Decision, Concern, Iraq, Military, Order, President, Public, Support)
"Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
(Related: Absurdity, Order, Right)
"One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order."
- Arthur Levitt
(Related: Change, Order)
"Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system."
- Arthur Levitt
"Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors."
- Arthur Levitt
(Related: Purpose)
"Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up."
- Arthur Levitt
(Related: Connection, Internet, May)
"Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation."
- Arthur Levitt
(Related: Computer, Fact, Order)
"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
- C. Day Lewis
(Related: Order)
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Imagination, Truth, Meaning, Order, Reason)
"I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live."
- Sol LeWitt
(Related: Artist, Order)
"We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
(Related: Nature)
"I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: Lies, National security)
"This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat."
- Karl Liebknecht
(Related: Time, Creation, Order, Present)
"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."
- Robert Jay Lifton
(Related: Being, Force, Medicine, Military, Order, Psychiatry)
"The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders."
- John Linder
(Related: Congress, Country, Security)
"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges."
- Anna Lindh
(Related: Politics, Limitations, Present, World)
"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."
- Anna Lindh
(Related: Order, Responsibility)
"We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Education, American, Concern, Information, Jobs, Order)
"If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order."
- Mark Lloyd
(Related: Business, Government, Democracy, Order, Present, Protest, Republican)
"In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances."
- Seth Lloyd
(Related: Atoms, Circumstances, Information, Language, Order)
"The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that."
- Francis Lockier
(Related: Bible, Order)
"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Civilization, Freedom, Inheritance, Land, Liberty, Ruin, Trifle, Will)
"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Civilization, Freedom, Inheritance, Land, Liberty, Mankind, Ruin, Trifle, Will)
"I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone."
- Julie London
(Related: Marriage, Order)
"2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically."
- LaToya London
(Related: Order)
"You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen."
- Nia Long
(Related: Commitment, Order, Passion, Words, Writers)
"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines."
- James Longstreet
(Related: Battle, Wood)
"A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson."
- James Longstreet
(Related: Fire, Open, Troops)
"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing."
- Konrad Lorenz
(Related: People, Knowledge, Man, Nothing, Order)
"Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Honesty, Values, Order)
"John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly."
- Rich Lowry
(Related: Order)
"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
- Ernst Lubitsch
(Related: Hollywood, Order)
"In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers."
- Charles Lyell
(Related: Rivers)
"We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary."
- Jack Lynch
(Related: Army, Hospitals, Irish, May)
"Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange."
- Jean-Francois Lyotard
(Related: Knowledge, Goal, Order, Will)
"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: Order)
"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."
- Norman MacCaig
(Related: Fish, Rivers)
"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."
- Ernst Mach
(Related: Experience, Order, Physics)
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: Success, Nothing, Order)
"The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity."
- Archibald MacLeish
(Related: Business, Life, Time, Possibility, Confusion, Dignity, Law, Order, Sense)
"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."
- Melvin Maddocks
(Related: Truth, Thought)
"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."
- James Madison
(Related: Science, Genius, Mind, Order)
"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."
- Ricardo Flores Magon
(Related: Order)
"I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Being, Day, Order, Popular, President, Stars, Television, Want)
"I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Religion, Faith, Building, Disorder, Flying)
"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: Being, Conviction, Meaning, Order, Sense, Suffering)
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
- Norman Mailer
(Related: Democracy, Traveling, Tyranny)
"Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end."
- Ella Maillart
(Related: Travel, End, Order, Universe, World)
"Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics."
- Maimonides
(Related: First, Logic, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Order, Perfection, Study, Wishes)
"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
- Henry James Sumner Maine
(Related: Law, Order, Remarkable)
"I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border."
- Lee Majors
"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
(Related: Afghanistan)
"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive."
- Nicolas Malebranche
(Related: Ideas, Eyes, Light, Order)
"I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion."
- Nicolas Malebranche
(Related: Forget, Mind, Necessity, Order, Principles, Understanding)
"How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right."
- Robert Mallet
(Related: Fear, End, Order, Right)
"I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine."
- Karl Malone
(Related: Home, Work, Nothing, Now, Order, Play, Road)
"The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Artist, Discovery, Order, Painting, Universe)
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
- Thomas Malthus
(Related: Friend, Order, Present)
"Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute."
- Joe Manchin III
(Related: Debt, Economy, Jobs, Now, Order, State, Workers)
"You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness."
- Ernest Mandel
(Related: Development, Class, Consciousness, Order, Potential)
"And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders."
- Ernest Mandel
(Related: Leader, Revolution, Leaders)
"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."
- Nelson Mandela
(Related: Israel, states)
"Order doesn't come by itself."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Order)
"I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school."
- Camryn Manheim
(Related: College, Growing up, Language, Order, School, University)
"One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator."
- Thomas Mann
(Related: Life, Order)
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."
- Thomas Mann
(Related: First, Order)
"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order."
- Katherine Mansfield
(Related: Death, Journey, Order)
"I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed."
- Charles Manson
"Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs."
- Kamisese Mara
(Related: Business, Community, Confidence, Jobs, Law, Leading, Loss, Order, Sales, State)
"In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order."
- Kamisese Mara
(Related: Peace, Society, Trust, Order, Tolerance, Understanding)
"In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Science, Leader, Opportunity, America, Children, Innovation, Order)
"We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Giving, Harvest, Order)
"I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level."
- Dan Marino
(Related: Love, Order, Passion, Play, Right, Want)
"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."
- Don Marquis
(Related: Influence, Order)
"By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing."
- Don Marquis
(Related: Time, Man, Will, Worth)
"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have."
- Ralph Marston
(Related: Life, Blessings, Order)
"For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better."
- Andrea Martin
(Related: Life, Love, Night, Routine)
"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Funny, Chaos, Order)
"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy."
- Groucho Marx
(Related: Order, Relatives)
"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money."
- Karl Marx
(Related: Money, Purpose, Order, Writer)
"One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Time, Light)
"In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring."
- Mary Stuart Masterson
(Related: Work, Doctors, Inspiring, Order, Passion, Pretty)
"You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen."
- Samantha Mathis
(Related: Being, Order)
"Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: Law, Order, Road, Rules, Terror, Unity)
"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Evil, Order, Universe)
"The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius."
- Guy de Maupassant
(Related: Women, Genius, Skill)
"A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind."
- Henry Mayhew
(Related: Truth, Knowledge, Dignity, Fact, Facts, Mind, Order)
"I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table."
- Thom Mayne
(Related: Work, Order, Sense)
"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."
- Willie Mays
(Related: Work, Criticism, Dedication, Order)
"This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us."
- Catherine McAuley
(Related: Mercy, Order, Spirit)
"Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces."
- Barry McCaffrey
(Related: God)
"There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Society, Forget, Order, Promises)
"A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Arguments, Being, Man, Order, Reading, Will)
"I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order."
- Tom McClintock
(Related: Movies, Order)
"At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us."
- Mike McCready
(Related: Day, Fans, Order)
"There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion."
- John McDonald
(Related: Negative, Positive, Order, Universe)
"The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents."
- Will McDonough
(Related: Money, Sports, Freedom, Makeup, Order, Television)
"Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults."
- Bobby McFerrin
(Related: Children, Order, Parents, Responsibility)
"They're definitely having their moment now because they know how to work the system, and I know I have to be that way, too, in order to succeed. But it's never been more frustrating for me."
- Rose McGowan
(Related: Work, Now, Order, Succeed)
"With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them."
- John McGraw
(Related: Men, Order)
"There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba."
- Aaron McGruder
(Related: War, America, Order, Planning)
"This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Government, Safety)
"I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop."
- Malcolm Mclaren
(Related: Ideas, Ability, Desire, Order)
"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Technology, Environment, First, Man, Order, Word)
"Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Travel, People, Job, Washington)
"I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now."
- Peter McWilliams
(Related: Happiness, Success, Causes, Desire, Fact, Nothing, Now, Order, Trouble, Wrong)
"Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order."
- George H. Mead
(Related: Order, Past, Present)
"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Nature, Human nature)
"After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army."
- James Meade
(Related: War, April, Army, Children, Crowds, France, Years)
"A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders."
- Michael Medved
(Related: American, Behavior, Inconsistency, Moods, Personality, Quick)
"We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur."
- Kendrick Meek
(Related: People, Force, Order, Protection)
"I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages."
- Kendrick Meek
(Related: People, Protection)
"Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude."
- Simon van der Meer
(Related: Now, Order)
"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!"
- Golda Meir
(Related: Order, Years)
"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future."
- Herman Melville
(Related: Future, Laws, Order)
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."
- Herman Melville
"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Feeling, Giving, Order, Tension)
"It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole."
- Dmitri Mendeleev
(Related: Nature, Science, Causes, Existence, Man, Measure, Order, Universe)
"Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction."
- Moses Mendelssohn
(Related: Men, Company, Fame, Greece, Order)
"We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Government, Service, states, United)
"Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous."
- Yehudi Menuhin
(Related: Music, Harmony, Order)
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
- Thomas Merton
(Related: Happiness, Balance, Harmony, Order)
"Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border."
- Tom Metzger
(Related: Blood, Negotiation, Will)
"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."
- Michelangelo
(Related: Art, Life, God, Man, Order, Poor, Worth)
"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one."
- George Mikes
"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."
- Nelson A. Miles
(Related: Troops)
"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
(Related: Life, Progress, Order, Party, Reform, Stability, State)
"The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players."
- Roger Milla
(Related: Help, Order, President)
"The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price."
- Dan Miller
(Related: Heart, Wealth, America, Environment)
"Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Health, Care, Hospitals)
"California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States."
- Gary Miller
(Related: states, United)
"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Confusion, Order, Word)
"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Man, Mind, Order, Pain, Security, Trouble, Will)
"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Order, World)
"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Wisdom, Body, Sense)