Quotes About Ordering

#1. We must go down to the very fundamentals of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is as ineffectual as if no attempt at order had ever been made.

I-Ching

#2. The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.

Terence McKenna

#3. It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling "Ordering a pizza?" at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back "Yeah. You want pepperoni?"
-Maximum Ride

James Patterson

#4. He hadn't spoken a word since they'd left the manor except to snap out directions, telling her which way to turn at a fork in the road, or ordering her to skirt a pothole. Even then she doubted if he would have minded much if she'd fallen into the pothole, except that it would have slowed them down.

Cassandra Clare

#5. What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

Dashiell Hammett

#6. I've always liked putting things in their places. I think it's my only true calling. By ordering things I create and understand at the same time ... Ordering is finding the best form.

Clarice Lispector

#7. There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Vash Young

#8. If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.

S. N. Goenka

#9. God does not measure the precepts of his law by human strength, but, after ordering what is right, freely bestows on his elect the power of fulfilling it.

John Calvin

#10. Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.

Waller R Newell

#11. I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.

Ansel Elgort

#12. Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book.

Pattiann Rogers

#13. I'm a grown-ass man. I can't be, like, ordering people to put down their phones.

Travis Morrison

#14. There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.

Gayle King

#15. It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it.

Blaise Pascal

#16. Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#17. Explain to me how this is fun: thirty minutes in line, thirty dollars to get in, ten minutes to work your way down here, ten more saying hi to people I can tell you barely know, and now fifteen minutes ordering a beer that costs twice what it should. You just lost an hour of your life.

Wesley Chu

#18. If Cosmic Ordering isn't for you, shape yourself so it is.

Stephen Richards

#19. Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering.

Stephen Potter

#20. He loves ordering new shows and canceling them after two episodes. God

Rick Riordan

#21. When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.

Pattiann Rogers

#22. The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.

George VI

#23. I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

Marilynne Robinson

#24. So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

Saint Augustine

#25. Conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor.

Virginia Graham

#26. You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?"
"The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass of tap water at a bar.

Nenia Campbell

#27. Here's how this goes. No Guardians. I don't trust any of them, including you. You can have as much ice cream as you want. I doubt I'll stop ordering you around." He turned his face away and put his lips to her ear. "And you don't get your own bedroom. You sleep here. With me.

Larissa Ione

#28. The argument about ethics and morality will have to go on in a post-religious society, just as it had to go on when religion was regnant and was often ordering good people to agree to evil things such as torture, slavery, or cruelty to children.

Christopher Hitchens

#29. Temperance, I replied, is the ordering or controlling of certain pleasures and desires; this is curiously enough implied in the saying of 'a man being his own master;' and other traces of the same notion may be found in language. No

Plato

#30. What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering? It has to be a McChicken burger ... a chicken burger gets blank looks. Well, I'll have a McStraw and jam it into your McEyes, you f**cking McTosser!

Billy Connolly

#31. Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Hannah Arendt

#32. I was happy for nights at home, ordering in and comfort food -- for strong drinks on the porch and long talks in the kitchen.

Ann Benjamin

#33. It is possible," said Miss Marling stiffly, "that Frederick and not Mary will have the ordering of the
journey."
Vidal chuckled. "Not if I know my Mary," he replied

Georgette Heyer

#34. Ordering and taking delivery on the supplies and other things they needed took ingenuity and finesse, but both were Win's specialty. Contraband that would set off an alarm if ordered from unauthorized sources would simply be "misdelivered" to the SD where he would pick it up after-hours.

Marcha A. Fox

#35. Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.

Sergey Brin

#36. The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#37. Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

Francis Bacon

#38. Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Mary Douglas

#39. In the earliest times, which were so susceptible to vague speculation and the inevitable ordering of the universe, there can have existed no division between the poetic and the prosaic. Everything must have been tinged with magic. Thor was not the god of thunder; he was the thunder and the god.

Jorge Luis Borges

#40. The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

Annie Dillard

#41. truth is what happens when humans use words to reflect God's wise ordering of the world and so shine light into its dark corners, bringing judgment and mercy where it is badly needed.

N. T. Wright

#42. Man ordering at Butera's deli/prepared-foods counter: "Hey, give me one of them chickens what spins around.

David Sedaris

#43. I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Harold S. Geneen

#44. You use your Bible like you were ordering from a restaurant menu. I call that Bible a la carte. You choose what parts of the Bible you wish to obey and what others to ignore.

Mark Segal

#45. Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

Albert Einstein

#46. I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.

Lisa Marie Presley

#47. I'd assume love was safe, like ordering the same thing at a restaurant every single time. I didn't realize that it could be a greasy roadside sandwich and vomiting, followed by a conversation that made time slow down and my heart speed up.

Alicia Thompson

#48. And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Lilith Saintcrow

#49. Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.

Sophocles

#50. Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.

Ashley Montagu

#51. We don't have a single big advantage," he once told an old adversary, publisher Tim O'Reilly, back when they were arguing over Amazon protecting its patented 1-Click ordering method from rivals like Barnes & Noble. "So we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.

Brad Stone

#52. That is a language for ordering
the slaughter and gutting of hogs, for
counting stacks of cans. Groceries
are all you are good for. Leave
the soul to us. Eat shit.

Margaret Atwood

#53. Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which "similar" things coincide, without there being any apparent cause.

C. G. Jung

#54. True self-discipline is not when you have someone ordering you to do push-ups, it's when you decide on your own to do them.

Stephen Guise

#55. But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me ... and go on living without me.

Mary Karr

#56. It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Marcus Aurelius

#57. I knock on Grace's door twenty minutes later, ordering myself to keep the gloating to a minimum. But damn, I'm feeling pretty fucking gloaty about the way I've successfully fulfilled all of her demands. It really is a shame that people don't grasp what a stubborn motherfucker I am.

Elle Kennedy

#58. It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#59. Half the world is screaming for water and freedom when the other half is ordering cocktails and complaining about the service.

Edward Docx

#60. Phones are only good for ordering pizza and telling someone you're running late

Amy Reed

#61. Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.

Immanuel Kant

#62. Bossy means "given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive." ... Could it be that girls are called bossy when they're ... well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason?

Matt Walsh

#63. If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get."

Nancy Pearcey

#64. Give them wisdom and devotion in the ordering of their common life, that each may be to the other a strength in need, a counselor in perplexity, a comfort in sorrow, and a companion in joy.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#65. It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never.

David Graeber

#66. You're going to go on dreaming and imagining and making up stories about me as you walk along the street, and pretending that we're riding in a forest, or landing on an island - '
'No. I shall think of you ordering dinner, paying bills, doing the accounts, showing old ladies the relics -

Virginia Woolf

#67. Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.

Marcus Aurelius

#68. Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

Alfonso X Of Castile

#69. 'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.

Stanley Hauerwas

#70. I am not just wondering, God is ordering my footsteps and His words are lamp to my path.

Patience Johnson

#71. Pwent fell back and began to choke on the command. By his estimation, a dwarf king ordering a subject to go take a bath was roughly the equivalent of a human king telling his knights to go out and kill babies.

R.A. Salvatore

#72. The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#73. Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me ... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

Barbara Kruger

#74. I just love the storyline, I thought it was hilarious - I loved that part when we opened the door, we all look ahead and we have to look down and see that we're actually dealing with this little boy who did this horrible thing of ordering a wife through e-mail.

Caroline Dhavernas

#75. This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they speak of a social order that is possible on the basis of an ordering within the individual self.

Jacob Needleman

#76. If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Will Rogers

#77. The way I view comedy clubs is, people are drinking, they're ordering food, they're out for the night, and there's also a person onstage talking. And with the theater, they came to the theater, and they're waiting to hear what you say. So you'd better have something to say.

Mike Birbiglia

#78. One of the benefits to ordering food in New York is that you can get food 24/7.

David Chang

#79. Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil!

ABD- RU-SHIN

#80. It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads.

Zadie Smith

#81. I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.

Ben Elliot

#82. When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

William Feather

#83. By ordering the director of central intelligence to conduct a program of domestic surveillance, Kennedy set a precedent that Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and George W. Bush would follow.

Tim Weiner

#84. There are many reasons for ordering a particular bottle of wine. And memories of home are among the best." "Then

Amor Towles

#85. It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.

John D. MacDonald

#86. Alice! Come here directly, and get ready for your walk!" "Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to see that the mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't think,' Alice went on, 'that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!' By this time

Lewis Carroll

#87. Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.

Malala Yousafzai

#88. Perhaps events had their own way of ordering themselves , perhaps beginnings and endings always had coincidences no ordinary person could penetrate. In the flood of time, human beings were no more than flecks of grit, borne along by the flow.

Chan Ho-Kei

#89. Either Matt was outside , or he was weirdly ordering me to have an orgasm on the lawn.

M. Pierce

#90. You want a blood relative to lead your army? Get Marcie. She likes ordering people around. She'll be a natural.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#91. Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg

#92. I refused to even consider ordering less inventory. Grow or die, that's what I believed, no matter the situation.

Phil Knight

#93. Holden considered ordering her to button up her helmet, then shrugged. She was old enough to decide for herself the relative risks and rewards of eating during a battle.

James S.A. Corey

#94. I did spend much of my 20s sitting on a couch playing video games and ordering disgusting food.

John Gemberling

#95. Fascism is not [only] squads of the SA or the Blackshirts marching on the streets. Fascism is officials, in uniforms ordering what is capitalist supposed to do with "his" factory, and how he should father "his" children and occasionally - how many Jews (or anti-Semites) should be sent to Auschwitz.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#96. I love Amazon 1-Click ordering. Because if it takes two clicks, I don't even want it anymore.

Jerry Seinfeld

#97. In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment. And of course the tobacco companies are thinking, 'Cigarette sandwiches - what a great idea.

Jay Leno

#98. Obey and pay attention to everything I am ordering you to do, so that things will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, as you do what Yahweh sees as good and right. - Deuteronomy 12:28

Paul Nison

#99. I think it's so much fun to create a space. As the world has gotten more and more hectic - with these horrible catastrophes [happening] - people are going out less, ordering in, [having guests over]. People love to be in their homes.

Aerin Lauder

#100. He had four of the characteristics of a superior man: - in his conduct of himself, he was humble; in serving his superiors, he was respectful; in nourishing the people, he was kind; in ordering the people, he was just.

Confucius