Quotes About Order

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

Things always work according to their nature.

Our work is connected to much larger structures and systems that can be influenced and changed to align with God's intention to bring order and fruitfulness into the world.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.

Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy. Violence was reduced because, for the first time since the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraqis felt that there was a force capable of dominating the situation and ensuring basic order.

Trump's executive order on refugees, his endless petty feuds - with allies, with judges, with Arnold Schwarzenegger - his constant stream of up-is-down and down-is-up fabrications is outrageous.

The reason I moved to Singapore is because everything is so organised and streamlined. There's no 'who you know,' there's no anything 'under the table.'

If Congress grants permission, I would put armed forces in the streets.

I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?

Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.

You can take the stress out of Christmas by trying to be as organised as you possibly can.

In 'Law and Order,' that wasn't a real stretch; I had to play an athlete and I had like four lines.

I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.

I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car.