Quotes About Order

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.

I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'

I'm a non-confrontational person. If I order salmon and I get chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken.

In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.

'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

I have to put my outfit on in the same order. It's sort of a superstition. The last thing I put on is the glasses.

No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.

I am not really superstitious - I get ready in the same order pretty much every day. I'm afraid I'm a bit boring like that.

Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?

If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That is a fact of history. The right has always emerged supreme when destabilisation and insecurity prevail.

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

We have no prejudiced stand, nor are we aggressive on the Sabarimala issue. The government is duty-bound to implement the Supreme Court order.

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface.

It should surprise no one that I'm out arguing for small government, reduced spending and getting our financial house in order, along with reasonable regulations and no more.

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.

Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.