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Quotes About Order

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.
~ Robert Breault
My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.
~ Anne Sexton
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
~ Michel de Montaigne
When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.
~ Aimee Mann
In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
~ Herodotus
His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.
~ William Joyce
It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion.
~ Frederick Lenz
Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.
~ Jane Siberry
Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.
~ Laurie Davidson
The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
~ Blaise Pascal
And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand
~ David Coleman
Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings.
~ The Vision
You were ordered to obey to Allah, and you were create to perform good deeds.
~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society.
~ Santosh Kalwar
Love is never static, but always evolving. Love is simultaneously random and ordered, so intangible and yet a part of everything, and when we attempt to limit it or categorize it, we get into trouble.
~ James Van Praagh
We need to take out the trash." As it happens, I have no intention of actually analyzing that data. Nor am I proposing to my son that we take a family outing to the trash bin. In many situations, people use the word we when they mean you. It serves as a polite form to order others around.
~ James W. Pennebaker
We're gypsies in the palace, he's left us here alone. The order of the Sleepless Knights will now assume the throne. We ain't got no money, we ain't got no right, But we're gypsies in the palace, we got it all tonight.
~ James William "Jimmy" Buffett
Physics is all about order and design. About laws that govern the forces making up our universe. We didn't create them. We just discovered them and learned how to use them. It is now my humble opinion that when you have laws, you have a lawgiver. When you have overwhelming evidence of intelligent design, you have an intelligent designer. Unless such a conclusion gets in the way of your personal autonomy and career.
~ Jan David Hettinga
Svarte shared this view, but he was obliged to obey.
~ Jan Guillou
He remembered a speaker at a seminar who had put five large stones in a glass. Those were the important things in life, the speaker said and went on to demonstrate how the small stones, or less important things, could easily be put in and shaken down among the cracks. However, if the small stones were put in first, it was impossible to add the large stones.
~ Jan Karon
Prikhodite seychas," he orders, come now,
~ Jane Henry
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
~ Jane Jacobs
It is amazing how a child who resists a direct order will respond with enthusiasm when that order becomes an invitation to play. Try telling your toddler, "I bet you can't pick up all your little cars before I count to ten
~ Jane Nelsen