Quotes
Quotes about Order
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Today I am more than ever frightened. I wish it would dawn upon engineers that, in order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
If they can make those 'black box' flight recorders indestructible, why can't they do the same with the rest of the plane?
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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 their best order.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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.
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
I quote others in order to better express myself.
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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.
