Quotes About Order

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Madness, it became convenient to believe quite early on, came with the territory, on the order of earthquakes.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.)

The world Michael Laski had constructed for himself was one of labyrinthine intricacy and immaculate clarity, a world made meaningful not only by high purpose but by external and internal threats, intrigues and apparatus, an immutably ordered world in which things mattered.

And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time.

Don't you underestimate Dream,' she said. 'Dream is a river that flows both ways, from Order to Chaos and back again. Dream is the wellspring of creation; even Death is no match for it. Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost for ever – that's the Auld Man telling us that what's destroyed can be rebuilt – aye, even castles in the clouds!

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

I think I'm living my life all out of order...not a bad thing, I think it just adds to being misunderstood.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

I'm single! fu.. what anybody else say...I need to get my life back in order. Don't try to change my mind about this.

These questions required either Camus or cognac, and as Camus was not available I ordered cognac.

Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

THERE IS ONE MORE POINT to be made about animal minds and evolution. Evolution is not a progressive force. Although it was once thought that there was a scale of nature or a Great Chain of Being, with all the forms of life ascending in some orderly, preordained fashion—from jellyfish to fish to birds to dogs and cats to us—this is not the case. We are not the culmination of all these "lesser" beings; they are not lesser and we are not the pinnacle of evolution.

It's not funny, Joan. My bras are all in the first row, color-coded alphabetically from left to right, and then a row of panties, all folded in little squares, and then slips. And socks along the back row. Everything's so neat it makes me want to throw up.

Mais les gens de cette génération avaient été élevés au rythme de la Voix dans la Maison des secrets : un monde dans lequel le téléphone pouvait sonner à n'importe quel moment pour te donner l'ordre de virer la moitié de tes collègues. Eliminer son prochain est la règle d'or de jeux dont on les a gavés au biberon. Comment leur demander, aujourd'hui, de trouver ça morbide? (pages 11-12)

We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order.

The reason such elementary things have to be explained to the Russian "democrats" is that they are so immersed right up to their ears in the mud of petty-bourgeois ideas that to imagine any but a petty-bourgeois order of things is quite beyond them.

According to Marx, the state is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another; it is the creation of "order", which legalizes and perpetuates this oppression by moderating the conflict between classes.