Quotes About Order

To come down to my own experience, my companion and I, for I sometimes have a companion, take pleasure in fancying ourselves knights of a new, or rather an old, order—not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more ancient and honorable class, I trust.

as she kept one maid-servant, she always took care to chuse her out of that order of females whose faces are taken as a kind of security for their virtue;

Order is the dream of man, but chaos is the law of nature.

She wondered why a prison should have such an evil face if it was erected in the interest of justice and order–an expression of the righteous forces of society.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

The world has not to be put in order: the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order, to know what is the world order in contradistinction to the wishful-thinking orders which we seek to impose on one another.

El caos es la partitura en la que está escrita la realidad.

Chaos is een woord dat we hebben uitgevonden voor een orde die we niet begrijpen.

Behind the world is chaos. Each word a stripe, a bar, but there are not and never will be enough bars to make the mesh

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

Every sound reason is on the side of law and order in their insistence that the eternity of joy be reserved for the hereafter, and in their endeavor to subordinate the struggle against death and disease to the never-ceasing requirements of national and international security.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater is his confusion.

Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about--however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.

One of the benefits to ordering food in New York is that you can get food 24/7.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.