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Quotes About Order

work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.
~ Barack Obama
When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I suppose it is in our nature," she said finally. "When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have known." *
~ Barbara Kingsolver
When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have known." *
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Willa's lifelong service to the duty of proper order now seemed like an idiot's game.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I suppose it is in our nature," she said finally. "When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Power was like a magnet, keeping everything rigid and straight and proper. But without the magnet, it all collapsed into disorganized scrap.
~ Barry Eisler
For me, the ability to listen carefully to another person's perspective, rather than summarily deciding what that person means, is in keeping with the behavior one expects of an elder. And the ability to understand what someone else is thinking is the foundation of stable social order.
~ Barry Lopez
diversity is an ineluctable component of every successful attempt to establish order.
~ Barry Lopez
And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to require it to resemble the viscous substance of truth.
~ Barry Unsworth
Paralyzed with fear and overwhelmed with trembling, at that very hour I ordered the things done by all of them to be recorded, and have reported them to your Majesty.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
My mother used to say that . . . and that the only real beauty is order and love and light.
~ Stephen King
All that this country desires is that the other republics on this continent shall be happy and prosperous," Theodore Roosevelt declared, "and they cannot be happy and prosperous unless they maintain order within their boundaries and behave with a just regard for their obligations toward outsiders.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Revolution results not from determined crowds in the streets but from elite abandonment of the existing political order. The food demonstrations as well as strikes revealed that the autocratic regime had already hollowed out. Almost no one would defend it.
~ Stephen Kotkin
Not until Gilgamesh gives up on transcendence can he realize how beautiful his city is; only then, freed from his restless heart, can he fully return to the place he started out from. Suppose that the city is this moment: things as they are, without any meaning added. When the mind gives up on its quest for control, order, and meaning, it finds that it has come home, to reality, where it has always been. What it has -- what it is -- in this very moment is everything it ever wanted.
~ Stephen Mitchell
He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
~ Stephen R. Covey
The very language of "daily planning" focuses on the urgent—the "now." While third generation prioritization provides order to activity, it doesn't question the essential importance of the activity in the first place—it doesn't place the activity in the context of principles, personal mission, roles, and goals.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Our home is a place of fun, relaxation, learning, friends, growth, and order, to develop ourselves into the kinds of people who can contribute to the world.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Žinoma, j?s geriau sutvarkytum?te kambar? už savo vaik?, ta?iau jums kur kas svarbiau išmokyti vaik? tvarkos. Mokymas užima daug laiko, ta?iau sugaištas laikas ateityje atsipirks šimteriopai.
~ Stephen R. Covey
For convenience, history is often viewed as a conflict between the instinct for order and the impulse toward chaos. Both are necessary: both are manifestations of the need to survive. Without order, nothing exists: without chaos, nothing grows. And yet the struggle between them sheds more blood than any other war.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
~ Stephen Sondheim
The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.
~ Steve Martin
The dictionary is a perfect example of overalphabetization, with its harsh rules and every little word neatly in place. It almost makes me want to go on a diet of grapes and waste away to nothing.
~ Steve Martin