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The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that.
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.
Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.
In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.
Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do.
If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.
Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.
I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.
In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.
In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again.
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.
Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause
Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.
If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.
In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.
Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.
That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
Frustration is our announcement to ourselves that we need to move back into love in order to find our "center" once again.
Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.
I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.
The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.
Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more.
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane