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Quotes About Order

The Sage accords with it and models himself on Heaven and Earth. Thus when the realm is well ordered, his benevolence and sagacity are hidden. When All under Heaven are in turbulence, his benevolence and sagacity flourish. This is the true Tao.
~ Ralph D. Sawyer
Francis de Sales makes clear that the essence of holiness is to be completely ordered towards love—love of God and neighbor, thereby being fully conformed to God's will.
~ Ralph Martin
I wish you to place your division across this road, and I wish you to get there
~ Ralph Peters
For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain: you cannot have either until you have both.
~ Ramsey Clark
The painful post-communist transition has prompted bouts of nostalgia among older Russians for the relative ease and order of Soviet times, with little heed paid to the harsh reality that the bankrupt Soviet system itself helped bring about the mess that Putin now faces.
~ Ramsey Flynn
At this there was a great uproar. Mr Churchill asked that the woman should come to the platform, and this she proceeded to do. The audience hissed her vigorously, and the complacent smile with which she regarded them in return appeared to cause still more irritation. The Chairman made her sit down on a vacant chair and Mr Churchill appealed again for order. 'Will everybody', he said, 'be quiet. Let us hear what she has to say.
~ Randolph S. Churchill
Filing in alphabetical order is better than running around and saying, 'I know it was blue and I was eating something when I had it.
~ Randy Pausch
If you don't abide by scientific principles, chaos will ensue.
~ Randy Shilts
All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.
~ Rawi Hage
Order is information that fits a purpose. The measure of order is the measure of how well the information fits the purpose.
~ Ray Kurzweil
However, we have the benefits of the billions of years of evolution that have already taken place, which are responsible for the greatly increased order of complexity in the natural world. We can now benefit from it by using our evolved tools to reverse engineer the products of biological evolution (most importantly, the human brain).
~ Ray Kurzweil
The other required resource for continued exponential growth of order is the "chaos" of the environment in which the evolutionary process takes place and which provides the options for further diversity.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered." —R. W. Young
~ Ray Kurzweil
En cualquier caso, permítame indicarle que se olvida usted del principio entrópico: no hay destino prefijado, sino un mono aporreando las teclas de una máquina de escribir.
~ Ray Loriga
Communist interpretation is never wrong. Logicians will object in vain that a theory which exempts itself from all refutations escapes from the order of truth.
~ Raymond Aron
Had it not been for the groundswell of support by the people of India, we would not have seen such a huge exercise of demonetisation bounce off without a single riot or a single law and order issue.
~ Arundhati Bhattacharya
There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to change a line you've got to talk to the writer.
~ Brett Gelman
After we map out all the main characters' individual arcs, using color-coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order.
~ Bryan Cogman
People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.
~ Max Riemelt
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
~ Stephen Hawking
Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.
~ Peter Zumthor