The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

I don’t want friends to die...or fade away. I don’t want battles where we have to lose in order to win.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

In order to accomplish more than you ever have before, you must do more than you have ever done before.

Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes.

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.

God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.

Successful people have all had to do things they didn't feel like doing in order to get where they are.

We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

In order to avoid any problem and to put it to rest, I will forever be known as Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

God’s grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

I was willing to put it at risk in order for someone to gain, in order for the situation to get better.

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

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