Order Quotes

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
-Mark Twain

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
-Pablo Picasso

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
-George Orwell

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
-George Orwell

"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat."
-Robert Byrne

"Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm."
-M.c. Escher

"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."
-Thomas Mann

"She would give them order. She would create constellations."
-Thomas Pynchon

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."
-Voltaire

"In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice."
-George Bernard Shaw

"In order to write about life, first you must live it!"
-Ernest Hemingway

"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
-Rene Descartes

"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."
-George Washington

"We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man."
-John F. Kennedy

"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
-Douglas Adams

"One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"We adore chaos because we love to produce order."
-M. C. Escher

"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind."
-William Shakespeare

"The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be."
-Lao tzu

"Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. "
-Seneca

"We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics."
-Stephen Hawking

"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."
-Ernest Hemingway

"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."
-Hannah Arendt

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
-Michel de Montaigne

"In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children."
-Herodotus

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
-Bill Cosby