Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse

I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Helen Hayes

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
Helen Hayes

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
William Faulkner

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.
Julie Christie

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.
Kim Kardashian

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.
Silvio Berlusconi

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Ralph Marston

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

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Les Brown