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Quotes About Order

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
~ Henry Brooks Adams
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
~ Unknown
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
~ Confucius
Victory awaits he who has everything in order - luck people call it. Defeat is certain for he who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck.
~ Unknown
Always remember what happened was supposed to happen in that way and order for a reason.
~ Unknown
When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host. Instinctively, when he awakes, he looks to these, and in an instant reads off his own position on the earth's surface and the amount of time that has elapsed during his slumbers; but this ordered procession is apt to grow confused, and to break its ranks.
~ Marcel Proust
I learned that identical emotions do not spring up in the hearts of all men simultaneously, by a pre-established order. Later on I discovered that, whenever I had read for too long and was in a mood for conversation, the friend to whom I would be burning to say something would at that moment have finished indulging himself in the delights of conversation, and wanted nothing now but to be left to read undisturbed.
~ Marcel Proust
Al??kanl?k! Zihnimizin haftalar boyunca geçici bir düzende azap çekmesine göz yuman al??kanl?k, ama o olmasa, kendi imkanlar?yla s?n?rl? kalan zihnimizin bize içinde ya?anabilecek bir bar?nak sunamayaca?? için, her ?eye ra?men buldu?u zaman sevindi?i, o becerikli ama a??rkanl? düzenliyici!
~ Marcel Proust
Self-centeredness thus making each man a king, enabling him to see the ordered ranks of the universe beneath him,
~ Marcel Proust
but more potent, which is not content with questioning the body but can command it, a febrifuge of the same order as the modern aspirin, which had not then come into use. We had not shaken the thermometer down below 99.5, and hoped that it would not have to rise from there
~ Marcel Proust
little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain.
~ Marcel Proust
Si mucho te contentas con el orden, se dice, te vas convirtiendo en piedra.
~ Unknown
Aunque se desborde, la literatura es siempre un orden.
~ Unknown
Her task may be to deconstruct a moral order which is based on a heterosexual construction of reality, which organises not only categories of approved social and divine interactions but of economic ones too. The
~ Unknown
Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.
~ Marcus Aurelius
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The safety of the people shall be the highest law
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
All truth is comprised in music and mathematics.
~ Margaret Fuller
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. This is no surprise, given that for most of its written history, leadership has been defined in terms of its control functions.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.
~ Margaret MacMillan
In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.
~ Margaret MacMillan
These were true things, Laura knew, but they were only part of the truth which was something less orderly than Kate made it sound. Some parts of the full, disorderly truth were lodged in Kate and Laura like splinters of corroding steel. Their feelings had grown around the sharp, wounding edges which didn't hurt anymore but were still there, fossils of pain laid down in the mixed-up strata of memory.
~ Margaret Mahy
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
~ Margaret Mead
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
~ Margaret Mead