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Order Quotes
"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"
108
"In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality."
95
"For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand."
79
"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."
58
"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
53
"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
47
"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order."
47
"I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning."
46
"He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen."
44
"I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself."
42
"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy."
42
"And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly."
42
"I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I."
42
"In order to be a top-tier candidate, I need 7.5 million dollars, and I currently have 0.0 million dollars."
42
"There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist."
41
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it."
41
"Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets."
41
"The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not."
41
"Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two."
41
"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."
41
"Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing."
40
"You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high."
40
"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."
40
"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
40
"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
39
"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."
39
"I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!"
39
"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."
38
"We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show."
37
"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
37
"Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I."
37
"The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be."
37
"Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao."
37
"Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order."
36
"Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out."
36
"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane."
36
"I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process."
35
"It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own."
35
"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."
34
"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."
34
"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."
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