Quotes About Order

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?

A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?

Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.