Top 250 Ordering Quotes & Sayings

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

I remember ordering records out of the Dischord catalog in the '80s, and there would be a handwritten note.

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

I love grocery shopping. It's one of my favorite things. I don't want to become an ordering-food-online person.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

Even leaving aside its military bases, America's influence on the domestic ordering of British life has been enormous, though sometimes unrecognised.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.

My specialties include macaroni and cheese and ordering Chinese-food delivery.

The stream of empty platitudes ordering troop worship is especially ironic considering the abysmal treatment veterans receive once they return home.

When I'm traveling, I always bring a big variety of healthy snacks and superfoods - usually opting for vegetables and fish or seafood when ordering food or on set.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time and ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Ordering food has not changed for 30 or 40 years.

I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics, the queen of the sciences up on top, down through a bunch of squishy subjects, ending up with sociology and psychology on the bottom. Palaeontologists are not much above that in their conventional ordering.

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

If you're ordering me an edible arrangement to say thanks, I'd prefer a meat one.

I think that running empires as a way of ordering the world is a flawed model.

I love Nooworks, Mara Hoffman, and Monki, and ASOS just for the joy of ordering a pair of shoes in bed at 11 P. M. and them arriving the next day.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

If I'm ordering power bars online, I'll order 480. Everything is times-10 in my life.

Shipping has a great oversupply of vessels that came from over-ordering a few years back. We think 2014 may be when it turns around.

Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering.

The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds.

One of the benefits to ordering food in New York is that you can get food 24/7.

Ordering pizza and jamming out with the contestants in our hotels and traveling the country together brought me so much joy.

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Ordering should be the most enjoyable experience, but at McDonald's, it can be one of the most stressful points in time.

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?

I'm a grown-ass man. I can't be, like, ordering people to put down their phones.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.