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Quotes About Order

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.
~ James Longstreet
**** it, holler them across.
~ Jubal Early
If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
~ Frederick The Great
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
~ David Lloyd George
Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
There's a pattern. Never, never doubt that there's a pattern. There's a pattern always. Everywhere. In everyone.
~ Susan Howatch
What Ingersoll, like Voltaire and Paine before him, understood was the indivisibility of human rights, and he understood this not in spite of but precisely because of his disbelief in a deity who had supposedly "designed" the order of nature.
~ Susan Jacoby
actual artists, and despite their reputation for chaos, most artists keep their supplies and work spaces scrupulously tidy. It's the personal lives that get messy. Dusk
~ Susan Juby
She rolled herself back so she wouldn't leave anything out. Sometimes time spread out like ink in water but it also had an order and one thing could not come without the other coming first.
~ Susan Minot
Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again.
~ Susan Orlean
cardinal sin in a library, where the commitment to findability is absolute.
~ Susan Orlean
Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida
~ Susan Orlean
Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.
~ Susan Sontag
Pippin ordered Childeric III tonsured and sent to a monastery, where he died five years later, the last of the Merovingians.
~ Susan Wise Bauer
Ordine, disordine, vita, morte, luce, ombra. Dal momento in cui avevo preso coscienza del mio esistere, non avevo fatto altro che interrogarmi, mi facevo domande a cui nessuno poteva rispondere. La saggezza forse è solo non chiedersi niente. Non sono saggio, non lo sono mai stato. Il mio elemento non è il quarzo ma il mercurio. Materia instabile, mobile, febbricitante. L'argento vivo destinato a muoversi sempre. E sempre nel disordine.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Tell me," he demanded. "Tell me when. I'm going to come with you." . . . "Tell me," he ordered. "I'm . . . yes!" she said. "Yes!" . . . "Can you really do that/" she asked. "Come on command?" --Mike Muldoon, Navy SEAL, to Joan DaCosta
~ Suzanne Brockmann
In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.
~ Suzanne Collins
Gregor bluntly. "As our guest, I hope," replied Vikus. "Although Queen Luxa has no doubt ordered
~ Suzanne Collins
Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.
~ Suzie Wagner
Actions are the louder expression of thought. The quality of thought is ordered by the nature of our inner belief and faith.
~ Swami Chinmayananda
Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.
~ Ronald Graham
The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.
~ Jimmy Iovine