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The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too? — Cheshire Cat

In most relationships, one partner has more control than the other. It was just the natural order of things. Perfect balance was a hard thing to find. — Harlan Coben

It's the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife. — Charles Bukowski

Everybody steals from everybody, Addie. That's the natural order of things. I — Amanda Lance

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. — Igor Stravinsky

As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy? — Stephen Richards

It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy. — Horace Kephart

There are no whys or hows when it comes to the natural order of things. It just is. — Julie Kagawa

Good order is the foundation of all things. — Edmund Burke

Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things. — Diana Gabaldon

The order of things consents to virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

After all, death and life are just two phases of the natural order of things. It seems silly to embrace birth and fear death. — Fiona Paul

First it is done to us, then we do it to others, then we order it done. Such is the way of things — Joe Abercrombie

Why do certain people try to go against the natural order of things, which is to fight for survival whatever happens? — Paulo Coelho

Advancement - improvement in condition - is the order of things in a society of equals. — Abraham Lincoln

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite. — James Madison

The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm not part of it. — Denis Diderot

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. — Charles Caleb Colton

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

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature. — Hugh Jackman

One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things. — Kathleen Rowland

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. — Carrie Chapman Catt

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. — Milan Kundera

I agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out. — Peter Orner

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things. — Henry Samueli

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things. — William James

There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Order - the accurate arrangement of things - increases productivity. Productivity decides rewards. — Mike Murdock

Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done. — Julie James

I was at the part of self-exploration where you have to be surrounded with miscellanea in all of its diversity in order to figure things out. — Addie Zierman

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters. — Gina Bellman

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting. — Deborah Kass

Wives were not supposed to hate their husbands. It was not in the proper order of things. — Kathy Hepinstall

There is no order of things except in the human mind. — Jostein Gaarder

It had to happen. It was part of the order of things. It was the way the universe was supposed to work. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came. — Freeman Dyson

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. — Francis Bacon

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray — John Piper

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. — Pierre Corneille

Such killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household. — Gustave Flaubert

Wisdom comes from knowing the order of things ... and you are the first order of your business. — Elaine Marolakos Edelson

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement. — Arthur Phillips

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life. — Janet Erskine Stuart

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities. — Mike Markkula

It went against the natural order of things. Parents give; they do not receive. "Mom, — Kathleen Irene Paterka

I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things. — Margaret Atwood

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man. — Nicolas Chamfort

The peace of all things is the tranquillity of order. — Augustine Of Hippo

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both. — Dorothy Parker

Ome things you don't need to hear in order to hear. The mind has an ear of its own and sometimes memory is the fiercest fucking DJ alive. — David Levithan

We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea. — Mick Taylor

Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things. — Atul Gawande

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like. — Laurence J. Peter

All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away. — Saint Augustine

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things. — Helen Keller

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later. — James Altucher

We must let go of those things that don't serve us. In order to receive the blessings intended for us, we have to make room for them. — Clifton Anderson

Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are servants of Ma'at - order and justice. We don't kill our enemies for things they might do in the future. — Rick Riordan

We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things. — Cecile De France

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that you can only tinker with the natural order of things for so long before nature gets the last laugh. — Chris Dietzel

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. — Brandon Sanderson

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Why fight the natural order of things?"
"I guess becomes some things are worth it. — Paula Stokes

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. — Rene Descartes

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect. — Jacob Bigelow

But this is what disturbs me: if there is no God, then, the question is, who is in control of man's life and the whole order of things on earth? — Mikhail Bulgakov

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy. — Gautama Buddha

People tend to invert the most natural order of life, which is to move before things happen, instead of expecting things to happen to move. — Robin Sacredfire

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ... — Angelina Grimke

Your insincerity is natural and in the order of things. If people agreed together and suddenly became sincere, — Anton Chekhov

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. — Ferdinand Hodler

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress. — Michael Jackson

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things. — Franz Von Papen

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power. — Salvador Dali

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is. — Chuck Palahniuk

Black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed
by anyone. — Joycelyn Elders

It was as if the universe pointed us in the direction of each other, because that was the natural order of things. — Chrissy Moon

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. — Frank Auerbach

There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. REVELATION 21:4 — Anne Graham Lotz

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does. — Nick Clegg

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely. — Arthur Erickson

The first step in becoming a global citizen is stripping away the preconceptions of how things should be in order to see things for what they are. — Colleen Mariotti

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things — Baruch Spinoza

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself. — Patrick Marber

Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things. — Henryk Skolimowski

The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give. — Norman Vincent Peale

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things. — Gunnar Myrdal

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth. — Rene Descartes

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. — Sydney Smith