Top 100 Order Of Things Quotes
#1. Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.
Michael Jackson
#3. The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.
Franz Von Papen
#4. What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.
James Madison
#6. I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#7. The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
Saint Augustine
#8. Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ...
Angelina Grimke
#9. All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.
James Russell Lowell
#11. New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.
Edward Pearson Pressey
#13. It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.
Robert Anthony
#14. He can go about his business, so completely satisfied to see and be part of the divine Order of Things that he will never even be tempted. When all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness, for drearier forms of pleasure?
Aldous Huxley
#15. There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.
Amanda Palmer
#16. The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.
Theodor Mommsen
#17. All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.
Gunnar Myrdal
#18. My ideas are a curse.
They spring from a radical discontent
with the awful order of things.
I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse.
I play witch.
Anne Sexton
#19. Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.
Cathy Hughes
#20. Everybody steals from everybody, Addie. That's the natural order of things. I
Amanda Lance
#21. Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.
Henryk Skolimowski
#22. Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.
Soren Kierkegaard
#23. What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?
Albert Camus
#24. Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
Maimonides
#25. Black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed
by anyone.
Joycelyn Elders
#26. Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
Dorothy Parker
#27. My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.
Deborah Kass
#28. The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.
Michel De Montaigne
#29. That so many of them were African American, many of them my grandmother's age, struck me as simply a part of the natural order of things: growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine. My
Margot Lee Shetterly
#30. Advancement - improvement in condition - is the order of things in a society of equals.
Abraham Lincoln
#31. Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
Helen Keller
#32. She had never chosen death over life before and as she was leaving she knew something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed. Then the dark obliterated all thoughts.
Kate Atkinson
#33. After all, death and life are just two phases of the natural order of things. It seems silly to embrace birth and fear death.
Fiona Paul
#34. With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#35. We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.
Cecile De France
#36. The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus
#37. Wives were not supposed to hate their husbands. It was not in the proper order of things.
Kathy Hepinstall
#38. The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things ... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Karl Marx
#39. The universe has a place and purpose for everything and everyone. sometimes we cannot know what that place is. or what the purpose of everything that happens to us will be. that is why we must allow the natural order of things to occur.
Jessica Brody
#40. The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil ... and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature ...
Henry David Thoreau
#41. They had grown up to believe that the natural order of things was for one's home to be a place of freedom and space far removed from the complexities and restrictions of human societies. We
Kobie Kruger
#42. It's the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.
Charles Bukowski
#43. It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#44. And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#45. It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things,
not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe
Leo Tolstoy
#46. True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
Baruch Spinoza
#47. Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.
Kenneth R. Miller
#48. This fills me with anger, although I already know that it is in the normal order of things that the privileged oppress the unprivileged: the social structure of the camp is based on this human law.
Primo Levi
#49. In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#50. The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm not part of it.
Denis Diderot
#51. Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.
Murray Rothbard
#52. At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
Alfred Noyes
#53. [Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. Thou mayest foresee ... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.
Marcus Aurelius
#55. Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things.
Diana Gabaldon
#56. The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.
Bhagat Singh
#57. I am the fierce one who threatens death to scoundrels, Darcy." Fitzwilliam scolded. "You are the one who keeps a cool head and prevents it. That is the order of things.
Diana J. Oaks
#58. [Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
William James
#59. Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good.
Aldous Huxley
#60. EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.
Morihei Ueshiba
#61. The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#62. The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#63. Such killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household.
Gustave Flaubert
#64. Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things.
Atul Gawande
#65. When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the natural order of things in TV - in life - and is as it should be.
Hugh Laurie
#66. When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?
Rene Daumal
#67. Of course, even though Peter and I have had our disagreements, we share a bond I'd defend to the death if needs be. If all goes according to the natural order of things, siblings will know us longer than our parents, longer than our spouses and friends. Lord Westdale to Duncan
Kieran Kramer
#68. The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too?
Cheshire Cat
#69. Rumi and Shams taught us how to see the world with new eyes, how to find our place in the order of things, and how to extricate the true self trapped under layers of noise.
Jamila Hammad
#70. There was no reproach either in their faces or in their hearts,
only the knowledge that they must die in order that he
might remain alive, and that this was part of the unavoid-
able order of things.
George Orwell
#71. It is quite in the order of things in folk-tales . . . that a parent should purchase his own safety by sacrificing his son to a ferocious animal or to a supernatural enemy.
C. Fillingham Coxwell
#72. Wisdom comes from knowing the order of things ... and you are the first order of your business.
Elaine Marolakos Edelson
#73. Every chaos has an order hidden in it. What we see as a chaos, is actually driven by a very disciplined and dedicated order of things. What we need to do is focus on the stuff before us, make our way through this chaos, and that order will sort itself out for us
Sapan Saxena
#74. Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.
Freeman Dyson
#75. Love so strong, without ebb and flow or crests and troughs, indeed lacking any sort of motion so that it had become invisible to him these seven years, part of the order of things outside his head which he had taken for granted.
Abraham Verghese
#76. It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that which she yields up to him. With each concession gained the man's desire cools; with every surrender made the woman's adoration increases...
Frank Norris
#77. The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
Arthur Erickson
#78. Oh, Karamazov, I am deeply unhappy. I sometimes imagine God only knows what, that everyone is laughing at me, the entire world, and at such moments, at such moments I am quiet simply ready to annihilate the entire order of things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#79. I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.
Patrick Marber
#80. Because when we reach, when we seek that place we have only seen in our imagination, we threaten the order of things, and threaten most especially the place of those who have found a better roost.
R.A. Salvatore
#81. Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
Igor Stravinsky
#82. Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.
Lord Chesterfield
#83. What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?'
No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.
Emma Goldman
#84. For most of my life, the world shrank and technology progressed; this was the natural order of things. Few of us clocked on that "the natural order of things" is entirely man-made, and that a world that kept expanding as technology regressed was not only possible but waiting in the wings.
David Mitchell
#85. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. REVELATION 21:4
Anne Graham Lotz
#86. The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#87. The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.
Jose Saramago
#88. Why fight the natural order of things?"
"I guess becomes some things are worth it.
Paula Stokes
#89. Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.
Benjamin Hoff
#92. Your insincerity is natural and in the order of things. If people agreed together and suddenly became sincere,
Anton Chekhov
#93. In most relationships, one partner has more control than the other. It was just the natural order of things. Perfect balance was a hard thing to find.
Harlan Coben
#94. Why do certain people try to go against the natural order of things, which is to fight for survival whatever happens?
Paulo Coelho
#95. Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.
Julius Evola
#96. It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
Anna Wickham
#97. I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.
Margaret Atwood
#98. It went against the natural order of things. Parents give; they do not receive. "Mom,
Kathleen Irene Paterka
#99. I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.
Nicholas Sparks
#100. Oh, Karamazov, I am profoundly unhappy. I sometimes fancy all sorts of things, that every one is laughing at me, the whole world, and then I feel ready to overturn the whole order of things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
