Order Quotes

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.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

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.

Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

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

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

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.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?

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.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

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.

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global 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.