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Quotes About Order

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.
~ James Otis
A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.
~ Christopher Alexander
The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.
~ Jayma Mays
I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go back and seed in the other, but I don't think I could keep track of who knows what, and the tension would come out wrong, so the answer is no - I write it more or less in the order you read it.
~ Ruth Ware
To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve.
~ William Ernest Henley
The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.
~ Maria Bartiromo
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.
~ Minor White
I plan to rearrange the alphabetical order because i think it has a very big error on the parts of the sequence of some letters. For example, I have just discovered that U and I should be together.
~ Patricia Barry
Plant no other tree before the vine.
~ Horace
These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.
~ Rufus Wainwright
An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.
~ Robert Southey
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
~ Saint Augustine
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Laozi
The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.
~ Judith Malina
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
She didn't know how Charlie did this on a daily basis. Maintain order. Honestly, it would have been easier just to make a run for it or lay waste to everyone in a five-mile radius. Illegal but easier. Oh, and . . . yeah . . . morally wrong
~ Shelly Laurenston
I knew books to be objects that loved to cluster and form disordered piles, but here books seemed robbed of their zany capacity to fall about, to conspire. In the library, books behaved themselves.
~ Sheridan Hay
All things proceed from Nature—don't they? All things in the heaven, in the earth, and under the earth, act and live as Nature ordains?
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
This jail is not Burger King- you can't have it your way.
~ Sheriff Chuck Wright
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Man patterns the Earth, the Earth patterns the Heavens, the Heavens pattern the Dao, the pattern of the Dao is natural.
~ Shou-Yu Liang
Everything should exist in the right place, in the right way.
~ Shunryu Suzuki