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Quotes About Order

the truth of the event does not belong to the order of identificatory knowledge, as if our life's charge were to track down and learn the secret name of some fugitive spirit.
~ John D. Caputo
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in their several orbits.
~ John Dickinson
Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.
~ John Donne
Nature hath no gaol, though she hath law.
~ John Donne
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
~ John Drinkwater
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
~ John Drinkwater
Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry,In order to their stations leap,And Music's power obey.From harmony, from heavenly harmony,This universal frame began:From harmony to harmonyThrough all the compass of the notes it ran,The diapason closing full in Man.
~ John Dryden
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
~ John Dryden
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Invite Divine Order into your life today and a more serene tomorrow will unfold.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.
~ George MacDonald
Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
~ Heinrich Heine
Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well.
~ Irene Cara
Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.
~ Anne Frasier, Hush
I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.
~ Paul Davies
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
~ William James
We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.
~ Albert Hadley