Quotes About Order

They were groping for a modern order that allowed citizens to participate in the new economies of scale instead of being subject to them, one that offered more freedom of choice to more members of society. Theirs was a version of modernity based on grassroots cooperation, not zero-sum competition

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

He found the job satisfying, as if by creating orderliness in one corner of the library he could restore a sense of order in the world at large.

Perhaps, beguiled by custom and order, one's sense of evil goes numb.

DO NOT SEARCH FOR SECURITY in the world you inhabit. You tend to make mental checklists of things you need to do in order to gain control of your life. If only you could check everything off your list,

The only thing you can grasp without damaging your soul is My hand. Ask My Spirit within you to order your day and control your thoughts, for the mind controlled by the Spirit is Life and Peace.

Das ist so ein dichterischer Unsinn – die Reihenfolge der Tage. Es gibt keinerlei Reihenfolge, die Tage kommen, wann es ihnen passt, manchmal auch ein paar auf einmal. Es kommt auch vor, dass ein Tag lange nicht kommt. Dann lebt man in die Leere, begreift nichts und ist recht krank. Und andere Leute auch, sind auch krank, aber sie halten den Mund.

What the present generation wants is what all generations have always wanted—a meaning, a sense of what the world and life are—a chance to strive for some sort of order.

Physics becomes chemistry, chemistry becomes biology, biology becomes psychology, and so on. Or, put another way: cells emerge from the interactions of atoms, organs emerge from the interactions of cells, and societies emerge from the interactions of people. Each level of emergence produces higher order functionalities.

A penguin walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender says, "You look like you're wearing a tuxedo." The penguin says, "What makes you think I'm not?

A golf club walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender looks at him and says, "Sorry, I can't serve you. You'll be driving later.

He that loves the law will get his fill of it.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.

If everything in the universe evolves toward increasing disorder, it must have started out in an exquisitely ordered arrangement. This whole chain of logic, purporting to explain why you can't turn an omelet into an egg, apparently rests on a deep assumption about the very beginning of the universe. It was in a state of very low entropy, very high order. Why did our part of the universe pass though a period of such low entropy?

the interaction of gravity with other forces seems to be able to create order while still making the entropy go up—temporarily, anyway. That is a deep clue to something important about how the universe works; sadly, we aren't yet sure what that clue is telling us.

For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.

God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.

Everything has a place and time.

I'm structured with time.

making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

We ordered him peremptorily to sit down with us.