Quotes About Order

Wake me up when everything is organized.

Noah presses upon my back to bend me double in preparation for the order. He tosses aside my clogs in order to bind left thumb to right toe, then right thumb to left toe in the form of the holy cross. It has always seemed to me a forgiving God would not condone such abuse of the crucifix.

The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful.

There's a way to resolve chaos and that's to finish what was started, and every organism knows this emergency plan without being told.

Chaos should not be the natural state at work.

Keep things clean and unencumbered but don't sterilize.*

I watch a lot of Law & Order. Olivia Benson is my spirit animal.

la justicia no es sólo cuestión de fondo. Sobre todo, es cuestión de forma.

Order Matters: Acknowledge Before Problem-Solving

There's nothing wrong with having these rules. In fact, we need them to order our lives. But when you find yourself in conflict, it helps to make your rules explicit and to encourage the other person to do the same.

By its very nature, the dark side invites rivalry and strife. This is the greatest strength of the Sith: it culls the weak from our order.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

Suppose I could prove to you that there are universal patterns of order and repetition that give meaning to the activity of this planet. Suppose I could demonstrate that you yourself are an instrumentation in our modern age of trends

passage to a limit should always be the last operation, not the first.

La llegada del desorden a la vida de una persona con el consiguiente colapso del significado definido por la mente, puede constituir la puerta a un orden superior.

Detrás de la sucesión aparentemente aleatoria o hasta caótica de sucesos que acontecen en la vida y también en el mundo yace oculto el desenvolvimiento de un orden y un propósito superiores. El proverbio Zen lo expresa bellamente: La nieve cae copo por copo, cada uno en su lugar preciso

Behind the sometimes seemingly random or even chaotic succession of events in our lives as well as in the world lies concealed the unfolding of a higher order and purpose. This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying "The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.

Only if we are still enough inside and the noise of thinking subsides can we become aware that there is a hidden harmony here, a sacredness, a higher order in which everything has its perfect place and could not be other than what it is and the way it is.

However, the irruption of disorder into a person's life, and the resultant collapse of a mentally defined meaning, can become the opening into a higher order.

The cosmos is not chaotic. The very word chaos means order.

I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own.

We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.

Strive as she would to put some order in her thoughts, the words would not come more clearly; yet she felt that she could not leave him without trying to make him understand that she had saved herself whole from the seeming ruin of her life.

all the strange weeds pushing up between the ordered rows of social vegetables.