Order Quotes

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.

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

We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

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.

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.

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

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.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

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.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

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

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.

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that 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.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

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.

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.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.