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Quotes About Order

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.
~ Sandra Bullock
The filibuster is used more aggressively, so I think doing each individual appropriations bill through regular order would be a home run. But I think that we should try to hit a few singles.
~ Brian Schatz
The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.
~ Amy Alcott
I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
~ Dakota Fanning
I can still hear my mom's voice echoing through the house, reminding me and my siblings to 'Make your beds!' It seems like such a small thing, but when you're one of 15 brothers and sisters like me, those small reminders about the importance of discipline and order are critical.
~ Peggy Johnson
I want to make Meerut safer for women and improve the law and order situation.
~ Nagma
I always liked situations where there were very clear rules of what to do.
~ Terence Tao
There was a Burger King in Hamilton, N.Y., where Colgate is, that had three sizes: Small, Medium, and Liter. I would go in there and order a large. And they'd say, 'We don't have large; we have liters.' So they'd make us order liters of cola, which I found to be just anti-American.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar
A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
~ Bret Stephens
We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.
~ Nicolas Malebranche
The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.
~ Pope Francis
All's love, yet all's law.
~ Robert Browning
The gods love those of ordered soul.
~ Sophocles
The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.
~ Joseph Campbell
I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.
~ Kelly Macdonald
You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I'd canonize you." "The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!
~ Libba Bray
Grown-ups often forgot that no child likes to be ordered to be nice to another child.
~ Beverly Cleary
Though you tell yourself it's preposterous, you can't quite shake the feeling that you are being watched. You order yourself to be serene (it's just a woods for goodness sake), but really you are jumpier than Don Knotts with pistol drawn.
~ Bill Bryson
I didn't ask for twenty quarter-pound cheeseburgers, I asked for four quarter-pound cheeseburgers five times." "Same thing," he said. "It's not the same thing at all. You can't be this stupid." Two
~ Bill Bryson
Instead, we look for patterns in the facts, and some of these patterns we have come to call the laws of Nature, while others have achieved only the status of by-laws.
~ Bill Bryson
Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
~ Bill Cosby
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
~ Bill Watterson
Do not proceed with a mess; messes just grow with time.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
La dernière chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la première. ( The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first .)
~ Blaise Pascal