Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
Tobias Wolff
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Martin Luther
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.
Bill Maher
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
Let all things be done decently and in order.
Bible
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
Martin Gardner
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success
Ingrid Bergman
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Aristotle
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.
Joseph Joubert
Good order is the foundation of all good things.
Edmund Burke