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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. -- Jean Cocteau
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. -- Meister Eckhart
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
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The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came. -- Mira Grant
Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order. -- Byron Katie
For missing a 10 minute swim - I think it was out of order really. -- Gareth Hock
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order -- Meister Eckhart
The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open. -- Zig Ziglar
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete. -- Sara Zarr
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. -- Joe Girard
We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order. -- John Vanbrugh
We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.] -- Ovid
The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order. -- Neville Cardus
I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments. -- Byron Katie
It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing. -- Amy Adams
What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order. -- James Boswell
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order. -- Alexander Pope
Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order. -- Maggie Scarf
As you and I take Personal Responsibility for mending the things that are out of order in our community and nation in general, we would surely witness a transformed, developed and civilized society. -- Sunday Adelaja
Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves -- Rio Ferdinand
Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child. -- Bryan Cranston
I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right. -- Joanna Lumley
Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend. -- Stephen Mangan
Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time. -- Arsene Wenger
Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts. -- Minnie Pearl
When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense. -- Mario Batali
I think people do get better as the movies go on sometimes, and I'm always happy that we're shooting out of order, so it's kind of scattered throughout the movie, and there isn't like a clear build in everyone finding their characters. -- Seth Rogen
Strictly speaking, she was out of order. This dear 0-, how shall 1 say it?The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her tongue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts-at any rate not the reverse. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order. -- Byron Katie
If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order. -- Simon Jenkins
I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. -- John le Carre
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. -- Stephen Sondheim
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing. -- Cynthia Ozick
Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish. -- Gene Tierney
Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form. -- Bob Woodward
You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely. -- Dave Ramsey
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. -- Edward de Bono
I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden. -- Richard Phillips
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. -- Edward Gorey
I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order. -- Cal Hubbard
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. -- Pablo Picasso
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair. -- Leo Fender
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys. -- Jeffrey Pierce
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty. -- Lance Loud
A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation. -- Michael Huffington
Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Music creates order out of chaos. -- Yehudi Menuhin
What's my favourite food? One you order out. -- Abigail Breslin
Art is order, made out of the chaos of life. -- Saul Bellow
I cry out for order and find it only in art. -- Helen Hayes
Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos. -- Nita Leland
Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos. -- Ilya Prigogine
You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. -- Octavia Spencer
Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out. -- Flip Wilson
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament. -- May Sarton
Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower. -- Thomas A. Stewart
I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think. -- Susan Sontag
I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl. -- Charlie Hunnam
For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life. -- May Sarton
A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are. -- Sean Wilsey
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. -- Jan Tschichold
In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind. -- Neale Donald Walsch
One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos. -- Molly Haskell
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts. -- Gottfried Leibniz
The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch. -- Marshall McLuhan
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly. -- Denis Diderot
In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research. -- Howard Gardner
In order to bring out the best in people, you need to give them your best. -- Omar Suleiman
You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions. -- Frans de Waal
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. -- Patricia Hampl
I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era. -- Barack Obama
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant. -- Chuck Close
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. -- Edward de Bono
You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance. -- Sylvia Earle
To succeed, you must take a risk and venture out of your comfort zone in order to fly. -- Debasish Mridha
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art -- James A. Baldwin
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. -- Gloria Steinem
I will cancel every illegal Obamacare executive order. I will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Out. -- Donald Trump
Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida -- Susan Orlean
In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb. -- Shirley MacLaine
Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match. -- Shaun Hick
I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value. -- Dov Seidman
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? -- Robert J. Sawyer
That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos. -- Ursula Nordstrom
Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos. -- George Peabody
In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say. -- Eugene H. Peterson
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. -- Edward Albee
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it. -- Horace Silver
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. -- Dorothy Day
You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes. -- Franz Kafka
In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different. -- Jenna Marbles
Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain. Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain. -- Daniel Dumile
Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much. -- Shauna Niequist
I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen. -- Victoria Gray Adams
Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking. -- Norton Juster
Expose the Jesuit order and learn about the global genocide. Speak out, even when what you have to say is not popular. -- John Reynaga
In order to stay out of trouble I worked in industry. You can't even do that nowadays; there were all those factories. -- Luis J. Rodriguez
God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like. -- Francis Chan
This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. -- James Baldwin
If your house ain't in order, you ain't in order. It is so much easier to be out there than right here. -- Toni Cada Bambara
Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else. -- Zig Ziglar
Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back. -- Serinda Swan
Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't. -- Byron Katie
As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living. -- Jean Piaget
Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers. -- John le Carre
If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on. -- Richard Masur
If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all. -- Penn Jillette
In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well. -- Kamala Harris
Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table. -- Dalai Lama
The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think. -- Jerome Bruner
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not. -- Louise J. Kaplan
I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs. -- Reese Witherspoon

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