Quotes About Order

Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.

To bring order into this jangled sphere man must find its centre Marshall McLuhan

As is typical of Maya inscriptions, not a single one at Copán mentions a commoner. Working folk had to build all those buildings. Farmers had to feed all those laborers along with the holy lords and nobles. This type of class division usually works when everyone believes they are part of a system, with each person occupying a valued place in society and contributing to the vital ceremonies that maintain the cosmic order.

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let's review the menu. Robbery? Frogery? No, I think not. Rather too vegetarian. It must be murder—red-blooded murder—with trimmings, of course.

Hercule Poirot's methods are his own. Order and method, and 'the little gray cells'.

Everything is simple, if you arrange the facts methodically

He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words.

Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success.

Excuse me, Monsieur Poirot. If you'd like to ask any questions, I'm sure the doctor wouldn't mind. Of course not. Of course not. Great admirer of yours, Monsieur Poirot. Little gray cells -- order and method. I know all about it.

That is the worst of Poirot. Order and Method are his gods. He goes so far as to attribute all his success to them.

Si se estudia un problema con orden y método, no hay dificultad alguna en resolverlo (Hércules Poirot)

To separate the main issue from the side issues is the first task of the orderly mind.

the perfection of a filing system beside which all other filing systems should sink into oblivion. She dreamed of such a system at night.

It had to come about exactly the way things happened in books.

If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it—none whatever,' said Poirot severely.

Disciplina sem arregimentação.

Participated divine light, existing as finite mind, intimately united with the body, precedes all the data of perception and makes apprehension of their inner order and meaning possible.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

In the ordinal view, number is thought as a link in a chain, it is an element of a total order. In the cardinal view, it is rather the mark of a 'pure quantity' obtained through the abstraction of domains of objects having 'the same quantity'. The ordinal number is thought according to the schema of a sequence, the cardinal number, according to that of a measurement.

Jefferson loved order, symmetry, and balance, and there was no place on the mountaintop more orderly, symmetrical, and balanced than the garden,

that pecking order. The dogs are taught

A fastidious neatness had been at work there, like a poltergeist in reverse.

Personal responsibility is better than any government order.