Quotes About Order

design is so important because chaos is so hard

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

The Law is the Law!

I was the law and order.

We need to balance between democracy and law and order.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

There can be no liberty without the law.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

In the context of ten thousand years, I thought, what did Filmer and his sins matter? Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long, ever-recurring battle.

The writer of nonfiction might be starting with events that really happened, but recreating them is an imaginative feat. Ordering them is an imaginative feat. Making sense of them is an imaginative feat." —Robin Hemley

The alphabet is male and female. If you will know the correct order of letters, you make a world, you make creation. This is why they will hide the order. If you will know the combinations, you make all life and death.

Numbers behave, words do not.

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

Army ants have discipline, Bill said. Don't ask me what writers have.

I still respond to that thing you feel in an office, wearing a crisp suit and sensing the linked grids lap around you. It is all about the enfolding drone of the computers and fax machines. It is about the cell phones slotted in the desk chargers, the voice mail and e-mail—a sense of order and command reinforced by the office itself and the bronze tower that encases the office and by all the contact points that shimmer in the air somewhere.

Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.