Quotes About Order

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

In England I would rather be a man, a horse, a dog or a woman, in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.

Faith, family, and fitness - that's the order I try to keep things in.

I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'

Order rooted in and maintained and restored by fear, intimidation, brutality and incarceration is immoral and untenable. Justice is order's intended soul mate. But serving justice is twice as hard as serving fear.

I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.