Quotes About Order

This was due to the intervention of a benevolent ruler, King Sejong, who in 1403 issued an extraordinary decree, which sounds enlightened even today and must have been extremely so at the time. 'To govern well,' he said, 'it is necessary to spread knowledge of the laws and the books, so as to satisfy reason and to reform men's evil nature; in this way peace and order may be maintained.

Barbara Tuchman wrote, "Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

The task of life is to keep your world in order." And that takes discipline, a healthy balance between work and play, and nourishment of mind, body, and spirit within the context of community—values deeply rooted in my own being, as well as my objectives for the teams I've coached.

great and sustained destruction requires great ambition. It must be conceived as the means toward achieving a new order, and although the idea behind that new order may be criminal and objectively very stupid, it must also be compellingly simple and at the same time absolute. The ideology of genocide is all of those things.

Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet table. We want pain to stay in its own little section, want to keep it from spilling over into the other parts of life. Just like . lunch trays. Keep pain in its own little compartment.

So here you are near the end of the world, savages, beings who, given the time, would build up a great civilization again. You don't have the time, and the long, long story, the many-eons tale of humankind, will end. For what reason? I don't know. The universe, looked at logically, is, despite all its intricate order and irresistible physical principles, senseless.

Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida.

But reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared.

The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

When you write a story you're not trying to prove anything or demonstrate the merits of this case or the flaws in that. At its simplest, what you're doing is making up some interesting events, putting them in the best order to show the connections between them and recounting them as clearly as you can.

The loveliest fairy tale of childhood is that everything happens in order.

They are crying intensely, the dependable father whose center is the source of all order, who could not overlook or sanction the smallest sign of chaos - for whom keeping chaos far at bay had been intuition's chosen path to certainty, the rigorous daily given of life - and the daughter who is chaos itself.

The police. The eye and the arm of the government in all matters pertaining to internal order, the police are obviously a key factor in the early stages of an insurgency; they are the first counterinsurgent organization that has to be infiltrated and neutralized.

The sale is closed when you get the order, collect the check, take it to the bank, and the check clears! —DAVID H. SANDLER

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Liberty limited by law is the cornerstone of civilization.

It was Von Choltitz who had given the order in May 1940 to firebomb the inner city of Rotterdam

I did not want the universe's ever-growing entropy to interfere with my lovelife

The Daily Bible by F. LaGard Smith, which presents the books of the Bible in their chronological—as opposed to canonical—order, and breaks it down into 365 daily readings, with a helpful introductory comment for each day's reading.

The Daily Bible by F. LaGard Smith, which presents the books of the Bible in their chronological—as opposed to canonical—order

Mathematics. It soothed, it allowed you, once you had perceived it, to breathe.

The political impulse, similarly, must, however manifested, proceed from a universal urge to order social relations. Emotions

There will always be bosses, pastors and government officials over us—and this structure is actually a good thing. It is not our job to derail it or work around it.

Man ordering at Butera's deli/prepared-foods counter: "Hey, give me one of them chickens what spins around.