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Quotes About Order

A man with a beard, ordering a beer milk shake in a town where he wasn't known—they might call the police.
~ John Steinbeck
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
~ John Steinbeck
You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a beer milk shake.
~ John Steinbeck
They were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness.
~ John Steinbeck
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
~ John Stuart Mill
He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting.
~ John Updike
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
~ John Updike
Piet wondered what barred him from the ranks of those many blessed who believed nothing. Courage, he supposed. His nerve had cracked when his parents died. To break with a faith requires a moment of courage, and courage is a kind of margin within us, and after his parents' swift death Piet had no margin. He lived tight against his skin, and his flattish face wore a look of tension. Also, his European sense of order insisted that he place his children in Christendom.
~ John Updike
Nature is the index and context of all health and if we have an appetite it is there to be satisfied, satisfying thereby the cosmic order.
~ John Updike
I AM THE LAW!
~ John Wagner
The Prime Minister's meaning was clear enough: the Fleet Train was the horse, and the fighting Fleet the cart. They must be kept in their proper order. As the size of the horse was fixed, it was pointless to plan an ambitious cart.
~ Unknown
Attention leads to connection, connection to regulation, regulation to order, and order to ease (as opposed to dis-ease), or, more colloquially, to health.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.
~ Susan Sontag
At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.
~ Dean Koontz
We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there's a pecking order in that, don't you?
~ Unknown
I ordered a hot chocolate and Chandler got a black coffee. He smiled over at me. "Still no love for coffee?"I shook my head. "Nah, why have bitter and gross when I can have sweet and delicious?
~ Unknown
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
~ Thomas Paine
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
~ Thomas Paine
People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
~ William Sloane Coffin
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.
~ Robert Burns
A disciplined Life is a useful and rewarding Life.
~ Unknown
The best way to simplify life is to set your priorities straight.
~ Unknown
Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.
~ Unknown
Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form.
~ Unknown