Quotes of: World-order Keyword

She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they became cold and short and dark. Living things hid them...

Skellig

For the developing world, the past half-century has been a time of recurring hope and frequent disappointment. Great waves of change have washed over the landscape, from the crumbling of colonial hegemonies in mid-century to the recent collapse of Co...

Where Hope Takes Root: Democracy and Pluralism in an Interdependent World

Or one meaning of here is “in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of,” or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebody—Here you are. Here, he said to her. Here both re...

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex...

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

Julius Johnson, the big manufacturer. He is being hounded by a mad woman who is trying to blow up his factories. She wants to destroy order to make people aware of chaos, and in that way to hasten the rebirth [...] The poor soul has the wrong end of ...

Sewe Dae by die Silbersteins

Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it is a human order. Reality tells us that we exist for a brief, beleaguered span in a cold infinity; fantasy tells us that the figures in the foreground ...

Terry Pratchett

Will you destroy something in order to make it beautiful? Will you avoid something in order to fall in love with it? Will you sacrifice something just so that you get it? Will you maintain distance from someone in order to get him close? We often mak...

Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.

Traditional

The fool castrates himself in order that he could accuse his pregnant wife of adultery.

Turkish

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.

Cosmic Ordering Guide

To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time.

Cosmic Ordering Guide

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.

Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Willem de Kooning

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Will Durant

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

Martin Filler

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix