Quotes About Order

The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (FFL) system; gun stores would have to become licensed, and they would have to follow certain rules. Felons, illegal immigrants, and crazy people would be prohibited from buying guns.

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

I write these shows one joke at a time. There's no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there's not continuity.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

I find that albums generally tell a story. Because it's music, it doesn't have to be in chronological order.

It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film.

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

I see a picture right now that's not parallel, so I'm going to go straighten it. Things must be in order.

Blessed be the soul, and the Lord that keeps it in order; blessed be the day, and the Lord that drives it away.

I like plans. They create a comforting illusion of sanity and order.

The high command sent the order to kill Che at 11:50 a.m. "Guevara was executed with a burst of shots at 1:15 p.m.," Rodriguez radioed to Tilton. "Guevara's last words were: 'Tell my wife to remarry and tell Fidel Castro that the Revolution will rise again in the Americas.' To his executioner he said, 'Remember, you are killing a man.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days." –Annie Dillard

Out of clutter, find simplicity. —Albert Einstein

1—Make Your Bed (<3 minutes)

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. —ANNIE DILLARD, winner of Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, 1975

Europe historically was populated by two types of people. The first type all followed the rules, worked together, and kept order. The second type all liked to go their own way, take risks, and test boundaries. Then one day, the second group all got on a boat and sailed to America.

The order is essential: I am a new creation, accepted, adopted, and free; therefore I want to please God.

It was easier to triumph in violence that it was to make a new order.

Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it. Violent right-wing groups, such as the Iron Guard in interwar Romania or the Arrow Cross in interwar Hungary, intimidated their rivals.

The claim that order is freedom or that freedom is order ends in tyranny.

Sometimes institutions are deprived of vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum of what they once were, so that they gird the new order rather than resisting it. This is what the Nazis called Gleichschaltung.

We learned to say that there was "no alternative" to the basic order of things, a sensibility that the Lithuanian political theorist Leonidas Donskis called "liquid evil.

Prostota jest ogromn? pomoc? przy porz?dkowaniu my?li.