#order

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i do #order #sense #strong #strong sense

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#always #control #fellow #getting #means

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#as far as #far #go #hypothesis #more

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#basically #demographic #enjoy #find #forces

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#almost #baseball #best #even #get

And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#course #create #determined #each #forever

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#american citizens #anywhere #citizens #constituted #courts

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#been #death #enforcing #execute #gave

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#i #i am #man #needed #only