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Quotes About Order

Paul also lists one of the gifts of the Spirit as "administration" (1 Cor. 12:28). The word literally means "steersman," "helmsman," and must refer to the gift of leadership in the churches, "a true director of its order and therefore of its life.
~ George Eldon Ladd
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
~ George F. Kennan
The smile died. It was like the sun being turned off. I felt like a moment of silence was in order.
~ Ilona Andrews
When you live in chaos as a child, you strive to impose order over the world. Unfortunately, the world refuses to comply, so you have to settle for trying to control yourself, your habitat, and your friends.
~ Ilona Andrews
Sitrep?" Beside me Javier's vamp looked to the left, looked to the right, and unhinged its jaws. "The first generation of the sahanu is dead. The second generation of the sahanu is dead. The Order of Sahanu is dead. Everybody is dead." Javier paused. "Praise be to In-Shinar, the Merciful." "Stop it," I growled at him.
~ Ilona Andrews
You sent an assassin to kill a baby," I said. "A baby. My best friend's daughter." "If it helps, I wavered before issuing the order.
~ Ilona Andrews
Nothing happens by blind chance.
~ Immanuel Kant
El mundo está regido por leyes que no se han hecho ni para nosotros ni contra nosotros.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Any more troubles can wait their turn.
~ Irene Bennett Brown
The police moved us on at about six a.m. This is the hour when, for some reason, one begins to be a menace to law and order.
~ Iris Murdoch
Le regole son quelle.
~ Irvine Welsh
The City was the acme of efficiency, but it made demands of its inhabitants. It asked them to live in a tight routine and order their lives under a strict and scientific control.
~ Isaac Asimov
The same pattern of the creation by supernatural gods of an ordered Universe out of Chaos occurs over and over again in various mythologies, and in a sense, that is the only story possible.
~ Isaac Asimov
La entropía, pequeña, es una palabra que significa la cantidad de desgaste del Universo. Todo
~ Isaac Asimov
So much hatred, so much cruelty . . . I don't understand,' said Victor. His mouth was dry and the ords stuck in his throat. 'We can all turn into savages if we're given a rifle and an order,' said another prisoner who had come over to them.
~ Isabel Allende
The spotless order of barracks and the artificial peace of fear reigned everywhere.
~ Isabel Allende
Te los desordenó? —le preguntó Amanda, súbitamente interesada. —Los alineó en orden alfabético y ahora no puedo encontrar nada. Yo tengo mi propio orden.
~ Isabel Allende
Por lo menos pondrá algo de orden en los asuntos del alma.
~ Isabel Allende
On the day of the election everything went according to plan, in perfect order. The armed forces were there to uphold the democratic process, and all was peaceful on a spring day more sprightly and sunny than usual.
~ Isabel Allende
El orden es un arte de los seres racionales, una batalla sin tregua contra las fuerzas centrífugas, porque la dinámica natural de todo lo existente es la expansión, la multiplicación y el caos.
~ Isabel Allende
Why was it that those who were about to shatter your lives always demanded order from you, when such directives were invariably a prelude to chaos?
~ Ishmael Beah
It was Dell who came out with their build-on-demand process, where they are able to keep a zero balance inventory. That means they don't purchase parts until an order is received. That is a way to greatly reduced overhead, since you don't need to warehouse parts or overstock parts you may not end up using.
~ Jonathan Raymond
Sometimes comfort zones are the best. Sometimes discomfort is just what the doctor ordered.
~ Aesop Rock
The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
~ Henry Miller