Quotes About Order

I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.

The admiral ordered extra lanterns flown from the flagship's high yards in hopes that the other ships would not lose contact with the Sea Venture during what he knew would be a long, difficult night.

It soon became clear that the ships of the fleet could not maintain contact. Somers ordered the little ketch cut free, knowing that he was almost certainly sentencing all on board to death when he did so, but also knowing it was just too risky to continue towing the smaller ship. At any moment, the ketch could be pooped or broached by a wave, devoured by the ocean, and she would drag the flagship and all her passengers and crew with her to the bottom.

And you sit listening, and nodding, like those toys I've seen, their heads on springs. It's too ridiculous, this ordering the noise the past makes into music. What's it for? Time's up. You're in the house. I'm through the door.

The sense of an unseen order, brooding attentively over our lives, restores purpose to individual acts of concern.

The reason is that as spiritual seekers we don't fit into any of the groups in the social pecking order.

artificial order on civilization is with brute force. The only way to make something unnatural appear to be natural is to force everyone to think alike. If

Halt! Halt, I say! (Roger) Oh, that's effective. Halt or I shall say halt again. (Sin)

Neatness is the hobogoblin of little minds

While China projects an image of being a stable and predictable member of the global multilateral order, America, under Trump, is increasingly perceived as a chaotic and unpredictable actor.

We follow protocol in our entire lives, nothing doesn't follow protocol

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others

You walk to toward the center (of the labyrinth), towards the source of that order, releasing the chaos of daily life, seeking wisdom and wholeness. On the outward journey you return to the world -- metaphorically -- with the insights gained within.

The police cannot be considered simply the custodians of the legal order, but must be seen as the guardians of the social order as well. That they defend it wearing blue uniforms rather than white sheets is a matter of only minor importance.

The darkness seemed to be rising rather than the sun falling. As if darkness were the natural order around here.

But it is quite understandable that even the best of people are accessible to the idea of a state because, as I said, a state functions as something very real. You see, when the state claims to be like God's finger creating order out of chaos, it is true to a certain extend; it is monstrous, not human, but a people in its wholeness is not human. It is a big animal, and therefore it needs another monster to tame it.

I have come to recognize that the reason I devote myself to research, and to the building of theory, is to satisfy a need for perceiving order and meaning, a subjective need which exists in me.

Small wonder that we prefer to approach therapy with many rigid preconceptions. We feel we must bring order to it. We can scarcely dare to hope that we can discover order in it.

donde las cosas están bien ordenadas no debería haber más que un mando supremo en un mismo teatro bélico

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

There is no mechanical impossibility, it is merely the fact that there are so many more possible positions of the various powder grains that will give a grey appearance, as compared to the much smaller number of configurations in which the grains are well ordered.

There are hierarchies of structures, and new concepts arise at each level.

It is entropy, not energy, that keeps stones on the ground and the world turning.