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I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.
How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. “Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.
In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.
Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.
Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.
In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.
Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.
In order of importance to me are: 1) the long term trend, 2) the current chart pattern, and 3)picking a good spot to buy or sell.
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.
Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.
When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.
A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.
On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.
Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.
I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.
Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings.
In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.
Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
Religion is a very delicate subject in Lebanon. You have to know how to say things in a very delicate way in order to be accepted.
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.