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Quotes About Order

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
~ Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order - order out of chaos. But we will.
~ George W. Bush
Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
~ Judith Martin
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
~ Toni Morrison
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
~ Frank Zappa
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
~ Unknown
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'Id like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'
~ Jay Leno
I went into McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." And the girl behind the counter says, "Would you like fries with that?"
~ Jay Leno
An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.
~ Unknown
big fancy things, even things with minds, out of processes which are individually stupid, mindless, simple. Just a whole lot of little mindless events occurring over billions of years can create not just order, but design, not just design, but minds, eyes and brains.
~ Unknown
The key point to keep in mind, however, is that symmetry is one of the most important tools in deciphering nature's design.
~ Mario Livio
Avoiding the Scylla of the nunnery, Hermia sails dangerously close to the Charybdis of Titania's lust for the ass-headed Bottom, but emerges safely, and somewhat more self-knowledgeably, into the orderly harbor of marriage.
~ Marjorie Garber
to tell the world of its true Centre, of the law of mutual sacrifice by which its parts are bound together. The Church exists to maintain the order of the nation and the order of the family.
~ Unknown
A waitress had come out of nowhere. "What can I get you?" ?I looked around the table, only to realize that everyone was staring at me. ?"Uh... five... beers?" ? "Five beers." ?"Yup!" ?"Any particular kind?" ?"…good ones?" ? "Can I see your ID?" ? "Goddammit." I handed it over.
~ Unknown
Even those who consider all this total bullshit have to concede that it's upscale, artisanal bullshit of the highest order.
~ Mark Leyner
This search order is called the new-style MRO for "method resolution order" (and often just MRO for short when used in contrast with the DFLR order). Despite the name, this is used for all attributes in Python, not just methods.
~ Unknown
In new-style classes (optional in 2.X and standard in 3.X), the attribute search is usually as before, but in diamond patterns proceeds across by tree levels before moving up, in a more breadth-first fashion. This order is usually called the new-style MRO, for method resolution order, though it's used for all attributes, not just methods.
~ Unknown
Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.
~ Mark Millar
Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.
~ Helen Exley
Her brain is like a filing cabinet – everything neatly stored in categories. My brain is more like soup – everything all blended and mushed together.
~ Unknown
And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates.
~ Unknown
A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.
~ Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.
~ Ryan Lilly