Quotes About Order

Everything about him aroused my curiosity: the care with which he selected his pencils, the way he sat — erect, as if at any moment he might have to get up and give an order to an invisible army — and how he stroked his blond hair. I only relaxed when he, like everyone else, got bored and fidgeted whilst waiting for the bell for the interval between lessons.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Je planmässiger Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer trifft sie der Zufall.

Trials there must be upon this earth. We are made of a stuff that easily corrupts when nothing calls to order, when a sign from the Lord does not reach us soon enough. Do not complain that destiny has rent your soul; For God knows best what will help us.

Your name is Lift, right?" "Right." "And your order?" "More food.

How are your accommodations?" Dalinar asked. "Sir? I'm in storming prison." A smile cracked Dalinar's face. "So I see. Calm yourself, soldier. If I'd ordered you to guard a room for a week, would you have done it?" "Yes." "Then consider this your duty. Guard this room." "I'll make sure nobody unauthorized runs off with the chamber pot, sir.

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

The law is there to keep us from ruining everyone else's ability to explore. Without law, there's no freedom.

Science was all about lines, about imposing order on chaos. Navani reveled in her careful preparations, without anyone to tease her for keeping her charts so neat or for refusing to skip any steps.

The less we see chaos, and the more we see the pattern , the better we're going to be at understanding just what we fight -- and just how to defeat it.

Being a human was about making sense of chaos, finding meaning among the random elements of the world.

Pocas cosas son verdaderamente aleatorias

Our laws will claim innocent men—for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.

That was a tall order for Ivy. Sarcasm was kind of her native tongue, though she was fluent in "stern disappointment" and "light condescension" as well. She was also a good friend. Well, imaginary friend.

tudta, hogy egy civilizáció akkor éri el legfejlettebb, utolsó elÅ'tti szakaszát, amikor a káosz a rend álcájában parádézik, és tudta, hogy már elérkeztünk oda.

A criminal investigation is like a construction site. Everything has to be done in the proper order or the building won't hold up.

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.

This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night.

It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. They are the lovers of law and order who observe the law when the government breaks it.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Ainsi, sous le nom d'Ordre et de Gouvernement Civique, nous sommes tous amenés à rendre hommage et allégeance à notre propre médiocrité. On rougit d'abord de son crime et puis on s'y habitue ; et le voilà qui d'immoral devient amoral et non sans usage dans la vie que nous nous sommes fabriquée.

My best room, however, my withdrawing room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house. Thither in summer days, when distinguished guests came, I took them, and a priceless domestic swept the floor and dusted the furniture and kept the things in order.