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Quotes About Order

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
~ Michel de Montaigne
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.
~ Thomas Paine
In times of war, the law falls s
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Christ! What are patterns for?
~ Amy Lowell, Selected Poems
One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.
~ Heraclitus, Fragments
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.
~ Johannes Kepler
All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.
~ Confucius
With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.
~ James Hutton
O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.
~ Christopher Pearse Cranch
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
~ Johan Huizinga
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
~ Norman Douglas
puts the cart before the horse.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It's a lot more comfortable to live in a world where the rules still apply.
~ Sylvia Engdahl
People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.
~ Sylvia Nasar
I don't know which side everybody's on any more, and I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order. It doesn't mean that I don't wish you courage in your struggle. There are on both sides of this struggle men of goodwill. That is important to remember, some struggling for freedom, some struggling for safety.
~ Sylvie Simmons
When your life is not in order, you feel discomfort.
~ T.D. Jakes
God's purpose for your life cannot manifest in the midst of chaos. You can't reach the place you were destined to be if you're constantly getting sidetracked. You cannot reach your life purpose when everything in your life is undisciplined, distracted, and disordered.
~ T.D. Jakes
The sky was overcast with thick, grey clouds drifting in the direction of Idasa. That meant rain. It would come, as long as the clouds drifted in that direction. Lightening flashes momentarily parted the clouds...Shango, the god of lightening and thunder, was registering his anger as this strange talk of a new God is taking hold of simple folk who were once unquestioning votaries of his order. The new malady must be nipped in the bud.
~ T.M. Aluko
All order has genocide hidden in its belly. Give it nine months and it will give birth, under clement conditions of course, to a holocaust.
~ Tabish Khair
Trzeba wstawa?. Trzeba podnie?? si? z ?ó?ka i wykona? pi?tna?cie czynno?ci, nad których sensem nie wolno si? zastanawia?. Naro?l automatycznych przyzwyczaje?. B?ogos?awiony rak bezmy?lnego ?adu tradycji.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
~ Tahir Shah