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Quotes About Order

Then you realize: night gives the world back its natural, original appearance, without sugar-coating it; day is a flight of fancy, light a slight exception, an oversight, a disruption of the order. The world in fact is dark, almost black. Motionless and cold.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Sometimes, when a Person feels Anger, everything seems simple and obvious. Anger puts things in order and shows you the world in a nutshell; Anger restores the gift of Clarity of Vision, which it's hard to attain in any other state.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
They hadn't found anything, for what could they have found? But order had been disturbed, peace destroyed.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Czasami, gdy Cz?owiek do?wiadcza Gniewu, wszystko wydaje si? oczywiste i proste. Gniew zaprowadza porz?dek, pokazuje ?wiat w oczywistym skrócie, w Gniewie powraca te? dar Jasno?ci Widzenia, o który trudno w innych stanach.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
D. zaczyna? cokolwiek widzie?, gdy siada? przed ekranem swojego komputera. Mia? wtedy przed sob? porz?dek i niesko?czon? harmoni?, prostot? dróg, które prowadz? do celu, jasno?? wyborów, ogromny potencja? my?li. Zaraz za tym do?wiadcza? spokoju, jaki bierze si? ze ?wiadomo?ci bycia wolnym. W pewnych granicach. Ale czy mo?na mówi? o jakichkolwiek granicach, kiedy tworzy si? ?wiaty?
~ Olga Tokarczuk
O?wiecenie zaczyna si? wtedy, gdy cz?owiek traci wiar? w dobro i porz?dek ?wiata. O?wiecenie jest wyrazem nieufno?ci.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
~ Orson Pratt
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
~ Orson Pratt
Art cannot order people around. Art dies the moment it acquires authority.
~ Osamu Dazai
Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God's appointed order.
~ Oswald Chambers
Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.
~ Oswald Chambers
If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection and lead souls away into side-eddies.
~ Oswald Chambers
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
~ Otto Dix
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
~ Otto Weininger
If they did not credit it, we did. We knew it was against all maxims of war for Cavalry to act without support, or infantry at hand. We knew that in all probability few indeed, if any of us, would ever come back from that rapid and deadly ride. But the order was given. There were the guns — and away we went, quickening from trot to canter, and from canter to gallop, as we drew nearer to them. On we went, spurring our horses across the space that divided us from those grim fiery mouths.
~ Ouida
Well, besides—I was wondering whether Caesar was true to his Order when he said it was not enough for his wife to be pure, since she was not also above public suspicion; or whether he was but a cowardly cur, who cloaked social timidity in a grand period, and shrank before the mud pellets of social opinion. Which was it—eh?
~ Ouida
The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
~ Unknown
Gabe leaned down, whispered in her ear. "The U.S. Marshal Service is at the top of the law-enforcement pecking order, outranking everyone, even the FBI. They have jurisdiction no matter where they are." Marc's gaze followed Zach. "I wish Darcangelo were here. He'd fucking hate this.
~ Pamela Clare
Jack liked it when things balanced themselves like that, the chaos and asymmetries of life coming together in surprising ways to achieve order.
~ Pamela Clare
They encourage the suspicion – potentially lethal among the hundreds of millions of people condemned to superfluousness – that the present order, democratic or authoritarian, is built upon force and fraud; they incite a broader and more apocalyptic mood than we have witnessed before. They also underscore the need for some truly transformative thinking, about both the self and the world.
~ Pankaj Mishra
Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
He gestured to Socrates, ordering him to stay with Alys; the dog sat down beside her, but pointedly turned his head away.
~ Unknown
Rules are set up for the good of society. But as soon as you make a rule, someone feels the need to break it.
~ Patricia Briggs