Quotes about order
Christopher Dutton -
Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man that is civilization that is Order and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering.
Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams
Unity is vision it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
Pearl Bailey -
You must change in order to survive.
Miguel de Cervantes -
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Dorothy Thompson -
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Norman Schwarzkopf -
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Herman Melville -
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Edmund Burke -
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke -
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Deyth Banger -
Believe in whatever if you want believe in "Jesus" the guy who probably doesn't exist.- If he is so powerful and magical as in the bible is said why he didn't save us with clapping hands or something like this and ... tadatada here we are saved?? He is alive and everything is alive!- How for god sake the bad people go in heaven??You kill and you go heaven why??You don't have a thing to communicate so you go in heaven to talk about your travel?- If the stuff about "Jesus" are true logically we sh
Jennifer Birkett -
Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination.
Bamigboye Olurotimi -
If your financial life is not in order, every other area of your life will be in disorder.
James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it.
Nicola Yoon - Everything
From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.
Henry Miller -
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
H.G. Wells - The Holy Terror
And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off from the full and glorious life he might have had, by Make Believe. For three thousand years in one form or another he has been asking for an unrestricted share in the universal welfare. He has been asking for a fair dividend from civilisation. For all that time, and still it goes on, the advantaged people, the satisfied people, the kings and priests, the owners and traders, the gentlefolk and the l
André Alexis -
Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure.
Marty Rubin -
The true order is what the wind creates by scattering the leaves.
John Muir -
If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thunder
Gustave Flaubert -
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Sunday Adelaja -
If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us
Marty Rubin -
Order is what exists before you start arranging things.
Karl Pearson -
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead
Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.
Kelly Barnhill - The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.
Virginia Woolf - The Waves
It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures standing with their backs against the window appear against the branches of a spreading tree. With a shock of emotion one feels 'There are figures without features robed in beauty'. In the pause that follows while the ripples spread, the girl to whom one should be talking says to herself, 'He is old'. But she is wrong. It is not age; it is that a drop has fallen; another drop. Time has g
Jay M. Feinman -
The law is so complex and voluminousthat no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand itall. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their wayto make the law accessible to the ordinary person. Just the opposite: Legalprofessionals, like the priests of some obscure religion, too often try tokeep the law mysterious and inaccessible.
Craig Groeschel - Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't do that. It's not normal.
Sunday Adelaja -
In order to deliver people we need to have a strategy, to have a plan of deliverance
Michael Finkel - The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad. There's routine and order in jail, and he's able to click into a survival mode that is not too dissimilar, in terms of steeliness of mental state, to the one he'd perfected during winters in the woods. "I'm surrounded in here by less than desirable people," he says, "but at least I wasn't thrown into the waters of society and expected to swim.
H.G. Wells - The Holy Terror
Why did every human concern clog itself up in a tangle of routines, formalities, disciplines, imperatives? Why couldn’t one be free? Really free? Guarding one’s freedom, wasn’t freedom at all. Why couldn’t one win one’s freedom for good and all, and get on with life?
Jack McCoy -
Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.
DeBorrah K. Ogans - A HOUSE of PRAYER
Freedom without order leads to chaos. We must have order around our freedom. It is God’s Word that sets the boundaries for our freedom.
Tom Robbins - Another Roadside Attraction
The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions a mockery of our sense of order. The clown (freedom) is always being chased by the policeman (authority). Clowns are funny precisely because their shy hopes lead invariably to brief flings of (exhilarating?) disorder followed by crushing retaliation from the status quo. It delights us to watch a careless clown break taboos; it thrills us vicariously to watch him run wild and free; it reassures us
Douglas R. Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
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.
G.K. Chesterton -
Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
Dmitri Mendeleev - 1869 - 1905
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
Eudora Welty - On Writing
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily - perhaps not possibly - chronological. The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.
Patricia A. McKillip - Alphabet of Thorn
...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.
Sunday Adelaja -
A human being should learn to make decisions independently in order to achieve goals efficiently
Sunday Adelaja -
We should get rid of these restricting attitudes and system of beliefs in order to remove obstacles in our way to the achievements of our goals and revealing our potential
Sunday Adelaja -
In order to have bread (a symbol of prosperity ) you have to first learn how to plough the land
Sunday Adelaja -
God is always creating something new, He wants to give us new information and reveal to us new secrets in order to exalt us over this world
Leo Ornstein - 1913-1990
I would say that Op 31 had brought music just to the very edge … I just simply drew back and said, “beyond that lies complete chaos”.
Alberto Manguel - The Library at Night
If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.
René Guénon - The Crisis of the Modern World
Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.
Anne Rice - The Feast of All Saints
Because if it's really true that there's no order, then anything can happen to us. Anything at all. There's no real natural law, no right and wrong that's immutable, and the world is suddenly a savage place where any number of things can go wrong.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.
Mihailo Markovic -
Another basic characteristic of liberalism which constitutes a formidable obstacle to an oppressed group's liberation is its conception of human nature. If selfishness, aggressiveness, the drive to conquer and dominate, really are among defining human traits, as every liberal philosopher since Locke tries to convince us, the oppression in civil society—i.e. in the social sphere not regulated by the state—is a fact of life, and the basic civil relationship between a man and a women will always re
Dean Koontz - Brother Odd
A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible.
Terry Pratchett -
Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it is a human order. Reality tells us that we exist for a brief, beleaguered span in a cold infinity; fantasy tells us that the figures in the foreground are important. Fantasy peoples the alien Outside, and it doesn’t matter a whole lot if it peoples it with good guys or bad guys. Putting ‘Hy-Brasil’ on the map is a step in the right direction, but if you can’t manage that, then ‘Here Be Dragons is b
Erik Pevernagie -
Happiness is good management of expectations and good management means making order and assembling the contingent elements of the "do's'" and the "don'ts", the "maybe yes'" and the "maybe not's". When we really want to live in agreement with ourselves and find peace with the surrounding world, good management is liberating. ( " Expectations " )
Dan Groat - A Punctual Paymaster
Peace, a commodity purchased with friendship and safety and anything comfortable and all things familiar; peace that was a pleasant melody playing through the moments of their day; a chord striking only the notes of security and agreement and understanding and order.
Moe Cidaly -
It takes a lot of effort for an obsessive mind to accept the fact that everything is in order except itself.
Steven Magee - Global Warming and Human Disease
The human body may need to receive sunlight through the tree canopy in order to be in a healthy state. I call this light “Interference Green Light” and it may be the top thing that you need to be receiving in order to be in good health and free of pain.
Sunday Adelaja -
A Christian is the person who studies the life of Christ and carries His image in himself in order to be like Him
Sunday Adelaja -
In order to achieve stable success, you must be focused on God and not on success itself
Sunday Adelaja -
In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work
Sunday Adelaja -
In order to have success it is necessary to know certain principles and rules
Sunday Adelaja -
In order to have constant success and prosperity it is very important to be focused not on the success itself but on Jesus Christ
José Saramago - All the Names
There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by collecting stamps, coins, medals, vases, postcards, matchboxes, books, clocks, sport shirts, autographs, stones, clay figurines, empty beverage cans, little angels, cacti, opera programmes, lighters, pens, owls, music boxes, bottles, bonsai trees, paintings, mugs, pipes, glass obelisks, ceramic ducks, old toys, carnival masks, and they probably do so out of something that we might c
Catherine Keller - Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming
The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. 'God had made us master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile peoples.' From the vantage point of the colonizing episteme, the evil is always disorder rather than unjust order; anarchy rather than control,
Sunday Adelaja -
We have to continually grow in the knowledge of Christ, in order to avoid every limitation of our human understanding, and allow the Lordship of God’s information, which is hidden in His wisdom
Sunday Adelaja -
To be sad is to lack a reflection of heaven’s order
Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance
Where there is darkness, there is chaos and confusion, but when light shines, things are set in order and the light rules and governs.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Every new day is a divine order.
Sheri S. Tepper - Wizard's Eleven
He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game.
Homer -
Too many kings can ruin an army
Deepak Chopra -
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
Cormac McCarthy - or the Evening Redness in the West
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
Michael Neill -
If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.
Seamus Heaney -
words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.
G.K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
I was waiting for you," said Gregory. "Might I have a moment's conversation?""Certainly. About what?" asked Syme in a sort of weak wonder.Gregory struck out with his stick at the lamp-post, and then at the tree. "About this and this," he cried; "about order and anarchy. There is your precious order, that lean, iron lamp, ugly and barren; and there is anarchy, rich, living, reproducing itself--there is anarchy, splendid in green and gold.""All the same," replied Syme patiently, "just at present y
Sunday Adelaja -
Light was the first thing that came into existence, first in the order of creation.
Flannery O'Connor -
When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.
Kate Fagan -
Maybe comfort exists in believing there is order in the world, even when someone is making the most disorderly decision we know: running toward death instead of away from it.In their absence, we're left trying to pin meaning to air.
Kevin Hooyman - Conditions on the Ground
Be sure not to turn your life into a series of tasks which must always be performed... I know it can seem appealing to live in a state of accomplishing things, always succeeding, always getting things done. But consider this. A whole life lost. A sacrifice to your fragile sense of order.
Kevin Hooyman -
Be sure not to turn your life into a series of tasks which must always be performed... I know it can seem appealing to live in a state accomplishing things, always succeeding, always getting things done. But consider this. A whole life lost. A sacrifice to your fragile sense of order.
Anthony T. Hincks -
Pretty soon all of us will be issued with hand scanners. That way when we met another person, whether we know them or not we can scan their ID cards. That way we will know whether to smile, frown, grimace, talk, walk away, laugh, shake their hand, give them a kiss, have a coffee with them, invite them over to your house, do business with them, have sex, go to a football game, have drinks or dinner together. I'm glad that our lives are getting so organized for us, because I would have to hate to
Marty Rubin -
A clean house is a sad house.
Gurcharan Das -
Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.
Rebecca Goldstein - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
(As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.
Eric Hoffer -
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Craig Groeschel - Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.
Gwen Mitchell - Rain of Ash
Looking down from the heavens, she saw how small, and yet how important each human life is. Drops in the bucket of eternity. She saw her minute place in the organic machine of the Cosmos, witnessed the give and take and the slow, steady swinging of life's pendulum. The world relies on order, pattern, and repetition. The earth spins and swings around the sun with rational, mathematical predictability. But she also saw the chaotic nature of things. No matter what, you can never know with certainty
Terence Kealey - The Economic Laws of Scientific Research
The dream of a planned, fair, moral, ethical, cash-free society remains strong, particularly among socialists and liberals. It clearly represents a fundamental human instinct. But feudalism just did not work very well, if only because powerful people will not always obey moral imperatives.
Kat Lahr - There Is A First For Everything
Precedence exists in humanity as it does with law.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
When coming to sex: First served, first come.
Philip K. Dick -
Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am s
Frank Herbert - Dune
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Julio Cortázar - Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.
Philip K. Dick - Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?
Peter Akinti - Forest Gate: A Novel
Life was complicated, I thought. Not just the living but dealing with the realities and the instinct for order that other people have, that I didn't always grasp.
Vineet Raj Kapoor -
Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.
Savitri Devi -
If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.
Italo Calvino - The Complete Cosmicomics
If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is associated with that first impulse and burgeoning of nature.The rest of your images that associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow - river fire whirlpool volcano - are for me memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom.