Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Simone Weil

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Van Morrison

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
Billy Sunday

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
Tom Robbins

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Tom Robbins

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl S. Buck

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
Charles Babbage

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
Orison Swett Marden

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

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
George Takei

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
Seamus Heaney

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Jawaharlal Nehru

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
Jackie Collins

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Jean Anouilh

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
Karl Lagerfeld