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.

Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.

The most thought to keep in mind is that “players” gain money at the end of each game while “spectators” lose it for a ticket in order to see the gainful players display their skills....

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man’s conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

The opposition tried to brand us as the ‘Ground Zero megamosque.’ The language was deliberately wordsmithed in order to arouse hostility against us. But the idea that the Jewish mayor of New York City and...

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is...

I actually like seeing how the world – trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there’s...

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful,...

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that’s slightly different in order to get inspiration.

It’s always challenging when you’re shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing.

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It’s the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It’s gratuitous...

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

I’m an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.

No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines–ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we’re lost, wholly incapable of separating...

Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects...

The 21st century – and the atheists – needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and...

Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We’re going to try and change the rules and change the way it works...

Spirituality is very much about putting yourself in proper order.

The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. ‘God had made us master organizers of...

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist...

The pieces of a puzzle aren’t together or apart.

One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make...

Law & order embrace on hate’s border.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

You’re a part of the order if you’re not against it.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn’t exist.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the...

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is...

Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from...

Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are…condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one – that is the meaning of order. If we start being...

Our show is different, because it’s not about law and order, it’s about psychology, the intent of somebody.

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Too many kings can ruin an army

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy than die from revolution. Both order and chaos are necessary ingredients for long...

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.