Quotes About Order

Forward had become a mantra months ago. Move forward physically, psychologically, spiritually, metaphorically. Movement seemed to pull taut the lines upon which facts and ideas aligned themselves in his mind. Movement maintained order.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. He had used the John Burroughs quote as a mantra

It came to him to wonder, though only for a second, why the mercurial Mercurio kept about him such a symbol of order and changeless.

Her goal had been before her, clear, uncluttered-now this. The pure order of her will was outraged by the mess.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

Harry felt himself pause, the sort of annoyed, over-played cessation of movement one did when one is being ordered about.

As a memoirist, it's your job to impose order and meaning on the chaos of life.

If you want to be rid of me, very well, I also want to be rid of you, but amicably and in good order.

See that I am God. See that I am in everything. See that I do everything. See that I have never stopped ordering my works, nor ever shall, eternally. See that I lead everything on to the conclusion I ordained for it before time began, by the same power, wisdom and love with which I made it. How can anything be amiss?

Lord, let not our souls be busy inns that have no room for thee or thine, But quiet homes of prayer and praise, where thou mayest find fit company, Where the needful cares of life are wisely ordered and put away, And wide, sweet spaces kept for thee; where holy thoughts pass up and down And fervent longings watch and wait thy coming.

For it is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done—the highest—so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Jane's little cowgirl seemed made to order for riding Tenny's bucking bronco.

Chaos is the true state of the universe anyway." "My universe was fairly orderly before all this." "It was only an illusion.

Your desk should send to everyone who sees it the message: All is well; I am in control.

I have recently read how many million square miles of backyards there are in this country. Think what a difference it would make if even a sizable portion of these backyards were managed according to nature's rhythm rather than people's; if only the owners tried for maximum diversity because of their love of living things rather than maximum order and limitation because of human exclusivity. ---- Norman Lavers

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.

I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.

Why couldn't I accept what was happening without trying to explain it, without bringing up ideas of order and disorder, of freedom, as one sets out geranium pots in a courtyard on the Calle Cochabamba? Maybe on had to fall into the depths of stupidity in order to make the key fit the lock to the latrine or to the Garden of Olives.

All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.

me duele ingresar en un orden cerrado, construido ya hasta en las más finas mallas del aire, esas que en su casa preservan la música de la lavanda, el aletear de un cisne con polvos, el juego del violín y la viola en el cuarteto de Rará.

A Lucas le parece que casi todo el mundo comparte la ignorancia de Hyde, lo que ayuda a la ciudad del hombre a guardar su orden.

Ah, querida Andrée, qué difícil oponerse, aun aceptándolo con entera sumisión del propio ser, al orden minucioso que una mujer instaura en su liviana residencia.

que sigue es peor, no que sea malo porque ahí nada es ninguna cosa precisa; justamente el caos, la confusión resolviéndose en un falso orden: el infierno y sus círculos.