In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.

I’m interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you’d see in a typical...

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings–artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers–to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order,...

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

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Disorder created connections──that is, resonance.

Order is power.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it’s limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

Which is more valuable into showing how I think: the order I think of things, or the order in which I arrange them once I’ve thought of them?

There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.

Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a...

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

In the matters of your life don’t take orders, take decisions.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Nearly every “serious” anarchist writer in recent years has tried to distance anarchism from chaos. Yet for most ordinary people, chaos and anarchy are forever linked. The connection between chaos and anarchism should be rethought...

Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n’est pas plus une science qu’un tas de pierres n’est une...

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

That’s all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

It’s a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you’ve written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I learned the first night that IHOP’s not the place to order fish.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

I don’t have to participate in another culture’s ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp...

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott’s collected essays for their classes.

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his...

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.

My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they’re color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Current science and technology have unlocked all mysteries.We make sense of it in a gradual process under law and order.

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn’t understand stability. He’s confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about stability constantly. It’s their favorite word, next to ‘power.’ ‘Gotta stabilize...

I’ve dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.

The financial advice market presents an impossible conundrum: in order to work with a financial planner, you must have enough money to be of interest. In order to amass enough money, it is critical to...

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.

A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible.

Precedence exists in humanity as it does with law.

I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that’s the thing about the cure, isn’t it? It isn’t just about deliria at all. It’s about order. A path for everyone....

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man’s life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.