Quotes About Order

Just because the power is out doesn't mean we unplug the constitution.

Excessive freedom is no less a flight from difficulty than is an overarching order.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Faire une architecture c'est faire une créature. Etre rempli se remplir s'être rempli éclater exulter froid de glace au sein des complexités devenir un jeune chien content. Devenir l'ordre. ...

But I believe life is an intelligent thing—that things aren't random.

Forty percent of teachers spend more time keeping order than teaching (Johnson, 2004).

If Marner, through the allegedly compassionate intervention of Eliot and Eppie combined, becomes, in his meek and modest way, a pillar of the social order instead of the implicit counterinstance adduced in the text as a pillar of salt, it is only because the threat of that salt, with which Eliot has no beef, cures him.

In his experience, only children greeted the sight of a police officer with enthusiasm and pleasure. Children like order and security. Most adults do too, but those feelings are complicated by issues of ego, dominance, control, status, and sex, all of which come bubbling up from the bog of the unconscious when you are confronted with a man with the power to take your freedom or your life.

Joe ordered a steak, well-done

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

There were other houses that always brought images of an orderly life, kitchens with plain sideboards, old windows, the comforts of marriage in their common form, which at times surpassed everything—breakfast in the morning, conversations, late hours, and nothing that suggested excess or decay.

The Librarian has spoken, sally! We Dare Not Disobey!

And Shelly wondered why Ivy lived by her lists.

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present . . .

Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.

The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love

the world is not their's, nor the world's law

We translate the word "Justice," but Dikè means, not Justice as between man and man, but the order of the world, the way of life.