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Quotes About Order

When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.
~ Silvia Hartmann
The truly perfect pangram would contain all the letters of the alphabet in the right order, but the only thing that achieves that is the alphabet. There are phrases that use fewer characters, but they are not as catchy. And this is not for want of trying. Here are two of the shortest: 'Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim.' 'Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.
~ Simon Garfield
The lettering is clean, beautifully proportioned, easily read, and, well, ordered.
~ Simon Garfield
And thus the museum took on a new role, and became a symbol and demonstration of time: time passing, time tracked, time catalogued. In some form at least, a museum is merely a chronology of its specialism, a consistent desire to order and explain events beyond randomness.
~ Simon Garfield
Magic has a fondness for patterns and repetition.
~ Simon R. Green
it is curious that each of Russia's Times of Troubles – 1610–13, 1917–18 and 1991 –99 – ended with a new version of the old autocracy, eased by the habits and traditions of its fallen predecessor, and justified by the urgent need to restore order, radically modernize and regain Russia's place as a great power.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
And for those of you who want to start any trouble, I have a zero tolerance policy. . . .
~ Simone Elkeles
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
~ Simone Weil
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason… The law, which is perfection of reason.
~ Sir Edward Coke
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
~ Sir James Hopwood Jeans
And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres
~ Sir Thomas Browne
All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
In his response, James argued: "... all direct 'encouragement' - the thing you enjoin me on - encouragement of the short cut and say 'artless' order, is really more likely than not to be shallow and misleading...
~ Siri Hustvedt
I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.
~ Natasha Bedingfield
If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
~ Sara Zarr, Sweethearts
Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.
~ David Agus
I love cleaning, weird but true. It really relaxes me.
~ Jessie J
It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.
~ Joan Armatrading
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
~ Kerry Thornley