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Quotes including the word “order”.

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Isaac Asimov

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Heinrich Bell

A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

Heinrich Bell

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

Bregovic

Homeland is an emotional place, beyond borders.

Charles Bukowski

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.

Calvino

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.

Albert Camus

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Cervantes

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

Chanel

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

Alexandre Dumas

It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Alexandre Dumas

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Alexandre Dumas

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

Will Durant

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Flaubert

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Sigmund Freud

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Gauguin

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.

Jean Genet

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Hesiod

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Kazantzakis

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Kepler

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.

Lorca

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.

Mitropoulos

I only live for the moments I am in the podium and in order to live those moments, I spend my life preparing myself with discipline, doubts and humility.

Montaigne

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

Montaigne

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

Jim Morrison

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Jim Morrison

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

Novalis

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

Valery Paul

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Proudhon

I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will.

Proudhon

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

Pythagoras

The numbers determine the order and harmony in the universe.

Pythagoras

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

Saadi

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

de Sade,Marquis

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Saramago

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.

Igor Stravinsky

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Unamuno

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Paul Valery

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Voltaire

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.

Simone Weil

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Durant Will

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.

Virginia Woolf

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.