Best given & order Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Law Order Lost Given Watches Audience Middle Crime Structure Episodes Longevity Starks Law And Order Centerpieces

Author:Danny Pino

“I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.”

Order Given Ordinary Paint Enthusiasm Covered Lacking

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.”

“Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.”

Men World Helping Order Given Women Enlightenment Description Helping Each Other

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.”

People Certain Order Given Stuff Enjoy Amount Projects Come Up Thrive Collaboration

Author:William Kempe

“ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.”

Men May Order Given Sound Shapes Crisis Ingenuity

Book:Light in August

Source: Light in August

“Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Doe Real States Care Order Turns Given Process Situation Cutting Objects Particular Creatures Affair Take Care Contradiction Affected

Book:Notebooks for an Ethics

Source: Notebooks for an Ethics

“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.”

“Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.”

Ifs Trying Seems Order Given Failing Harmony Following Disorder Truest Awkwardness

Book:Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter

Source: Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter

“Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human fallibility and reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable human needs for order and pleasure.”

Way Needs Humans Hands Order Given Pleasure Morality Extremes Hypocrisy Agreement Allowing Strict Unspoken Human Needs Grease Fallibility

Author:Janet Malcolm

“Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.”

Different Order Turns Given Elements Patterns Now And Then Kaleidoscope

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

“All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as "revealed religion". They are theories more or less rational which uncivilised men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilised men believe that they believe.”

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.”

Order Given Revolution Succeed Destruction Aim

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it.”

Facts Reality Order Turns Given Consciousness Degrees Behavior Preservation Responding Contributing Prevailing

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.”

Order Given Lines Levels Support Pieces Effects Capacity Remove Combat Officers Units Objections Cannons Fray Grenade Fodder

Author:Ward Churchill

“Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.”

Humans Order Given Chance Human Beings Half Spread Confusion

Book:The Fall of the Towers

Source: The Fall of the Towers

“The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!”

Believe States Order Given Nations Constitution Army Court Response Refuse Chiefs Executives Unlawful Chief Executives

Author:Alan Keyes

“It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.”

“We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.”

People World Mean Used Order Given Path Blow Chosen Leading Me Scruples

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.”

Giving Order Winning Given Chance Interesting Failing Missing Golf Extremes Margins Chances Are Rigidity Ultras One Chance Bluffs

Book:The Mystery of Golf

Source: The Mystery of Golf

“Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.”

Source: Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ

“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.”

States Moving Order Given Music Music Is Vitality Individualistic Durability

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.”

Should Firsts Lasts Order Given Color Needed Add Last Words Finishing Precaution Finishing Touches

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.”

People Years Children Helping Order Given Planets Helping Others Helping Other People

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.”

Men Want Giving Should Kind Matter Done Order Given Leadership Situation He Man Demand Weight Management Carrie Things Done Personal Matter

Book:Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

Source: Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

“In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.”

World Way Firsts Ends Seems Order Choices Given Enjoy Forget Liberty Our Lives Amount Valuable Spending Certainty Settling Obsessed Earning Unlimited Holding On Questionable Earning Money

Author:Rolf Potts

“Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun.”

Ifs Kind Stills Order Winning Belief Given Fun Evidence Argument Atheist Absence Having Fun Propositions Unreasonable Just Have Fun

Author:Scott Clifton

“Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.”

Should States Order Given Leader Subordinates

Author:Otto Ohlendorf

“I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils of homosexuality in order to attract bigger flocks to their churches and more votes and power to their corrupt councils. LGBT people seem to be being scapegoated more and more just as at the same time in more enlightened countries more and more freedom to express themselves, marry, be given official intersex status and so on is offered.”

People Ifs Country Seems Lying Order Evil Given Church Knowing Politician Mets Vote Bigger Officials Enlightened Lgbt Homosexuality Pastor Council Flocks Intersex

Author:Stephen Fry

“...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.”

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe

“A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]”

Firsts Humans Law Order Given Human Beings Conflict Robots Robotics

Book:The Naked Sun

Source: The Naked Sun

“Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.”

“From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.”

“Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”

Men Art Different Reality Order Given Effort Art Is Constant

Author:Chinua Achebe

“My life has been given its orders: the seasons seize the soul and the body, and make mock of any dispersed effort. The hour of death is the only trespass”

Life Has Beens Soul Body Order Given Hours Effort Seasons Mock

Book:Selected Writings of Charles Olson

Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson

“The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.”

“Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God.”

“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.”

Years Long Order Given Half Five Four Ten Percent Investing Favors Nine Gambling Odds Casinos

Author:Burton Malkiel

“... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.”

Order Given Sex Duty Gains Advantage Organization Womens Rights Agitation

Author:Catharine Beecher

“A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.”

Knows World Should Artist Order Given Creative Study Creating Capacity Labor Including Almighty Avoiding Rivals Creative Writers Duplication

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

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