Quotes About Order

Aquella noche me visitaron todos los sueños que existen para soñar. Hasta que amaneció permanecí en el umbral de la puerta de mi habitación, con las manos cruzadas sobre la maleta apoyada en mi regazo. En aquella maleta había puesto mi futuro. Doblados y ordenados como si fuesen ropa, aguardaban todos mis devaneos y esperanzas.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

The Templars were sworn to poverty, chastity, and obedience.

All members of the order were obliged to wear white habits of surcoats and cloaks, and these soon evolved into the distinctive white mantle for which the Templars became famous.

No one wanted to get sent to Oklahoma, and that was exactly what would happen to you if you got out of line

A business that looks orderly says to your customer that your people know what they're doing.

Wolf acknowledged that "a huge, overwhelming segment of America does not really give a damn what cops do in the course of maintaining order because they assume (probably correctly) that abuse at the hands of the police will never happen to them.

I would define a Coarse Actor as one who can remember the lines but not the order in which they come. it is perhaps not an entirely satisfactory definition, and a close friend whom I regard as easily the most desperately bad actor in West Bromwich suggests that a Coarse Actor is one who can remember the pauses but not the lines.

Surak teaches us to find order in chaos," Spock pointed out. "He does not teach us to try to eliminate chaos or impose order on it.

Deep inside each of us is a part that mistrusts order and craves the relief of seeing the world shatter into the chaos it believes lies underneath all along.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.

History teaches us that all ruling elites try to portray themselves as the natural and durable social order, even ones that are in serious crisis, that threaten to devour their environmental base in order to continually recreate their hierarchical structure of power and privilege. And all ruling elites are scornful and intolerant of alternative viewpoints.

Capitalism is not just an economic system but an entire social order. Once it takes hold, it is not voted out of existence by electing socialists or communists.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Complexity writings are filled with metaphors that try to make complex phenomena understandable to the human brain's hardwired need for order, meaning, patterns, sense making, and control, ever feeding our illusion that we know what's going on. We often don't. But the pretense that we do is comforting—and sometimes necessary for some effort at action.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

Peat believes that synchronicities are therefore "flaws" in the fabric of reality, momentary fissures that allow us a brief glimpse of the immense and unitary order underlying all of nature.

Josephson believes Bohm's implicate order may someday even lead to the inclusion of God or Mind within the framework of science, an idea Josephson supports.

This farmer knows the creaturely nature of the seeds and the land that he deals with, and knows also the best methods of sowing those seeds, of harvesting, and of threshing. But the farmer knows all this by virtue of his experience with God's orderly creation. God instructs the farmer, says Isaiah, but he does not use Scripture to do so directly; instead, wisdom—God's instruction—comes as the farmer discerns and conforms

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

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.