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"I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps." »Peggy Noonan
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"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." »Margaret Young
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"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." »Margaret Young
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"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"Here is the biggest truth about the Universal Order: There is no order!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil." »Mole
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"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary." »Peter Minard
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"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new." »Machiavelli
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." »Sydney Harris
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"For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."" »J.W.N. Sullivan
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"It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order." »Douglas Hostadter
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"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control." »Barbara DeAngelis
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"Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos." »Archbishop Ireland
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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." »Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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""Its only deep if you're short."" »Tom Zegan
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"A short saying oft contains much wisdom." »Sophocles
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"Life is too short to be sensible." »Unknown
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"This is the short and the long of it." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 2
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"What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself." »Henrik Ibsen
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"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time." »Norman Ford
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"Life is too short to be taken seriously." »Author Unknown
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"Life is never too short, we just don't do what we want with it." »Roman Lalich
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"The wolf eats the lamb; the strong eats the weak. This is not God’s Order, because it lacks justice, ethics and goodness. This chaotic structure belongs to the evolution! Evolution is primitive and it lacks high intelligence; it moves ahead by crawling and it is faulty! He who calls this system as God’s Order openly insults God! We must know that God is not in this universe; He is somewhere else, somewhere where there is no evolution, where there is justice, ethics and goodness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship." »George Orwell, 1984
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"The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world." »Chinese Proverb
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"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short." »Confucius
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"Life is too short for traffic." »Dan Bellack
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"Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do." »Fredric Brown
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