Quotes of: Natural-order Keyword

Haskell Moore: There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well. This movement will never survive; if you join them, you and your entire family will be shunned. At best, you will exist a pariah to be spat at and ...

Cloud Atlas

It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (...): the absurd pretension that human nature could be dominated...

Víctor del Árbol

A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary processes, but is, by virtue of interrelationships and of higher and lower levels of control, an unbroken unity. When resea...

Walter Rudolf Hess

Time is Galleons, little brother.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

When life is tough, use Cosmic Ordering. When life is great, use Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

Jose Bergamin

Lists have always implied social order.

David Viscott

Nymphadora Tonks: They're very clean, these Muggles. It's unnatural.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Hermione Granger: It means the Ministry's interfering at Hogwarts.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Dolores Umbridge: [pointing her wand at Centaurs] Incarcerous!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter: [to Fudge] I'm not lying.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

Ami Ayalon

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

Wallace Stevens

Women have married because it was necessary, in order to survive economically, in order to have children who would not suffer economic deprivation or social ostracism, in order to remain respectable, in order to do what was expected of women because ...

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

In essence, individuals more concerned with portraying their own uniqueness were more likely to select an alcoholic beverage not yet ordered at their table in an effort to demonstrate that they were in fact one of a kind. What these results show is t...

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Stuart Chase

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

E.M. Forster

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the o...

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dressed, well fed, and contrary to his expectations, indu...

The Dispossessed

The Northwestern Carpathians, in which I was raised, were a hard place, as unforgiving as the people who lived there, but the Alpine landscape into which Zlee and I were sent that early winter seemed a glimpse of what the surface of the earth looked ...

The Sojourn