Quotes About Order

Aber keine semantische Ordnung kann allein auf solchen Binarismen beruhen, weil neben den festen immer auch bewegliche, ihren Platz im Feld wechselnde Elemente notwendig sind, um überhaupt Ordnung in der Zeit herzustellen.

Luther was horrified. Partly this was because, for all his spiritual radicalism, he was deeply socially conservative. His instinct was to obey rightful authorities, to respect social hierarchies, and to preserve good order. For him, Christian freedom meant inner liberation, not political upheaval.

El polígrafo de Flores, en un rapto de arbitrariedad, llegó a establecer un orden de cualidades, según su eficacia para enamorar. Colocó en primer lugar la belleza y luego la juventud, aclarando que estas dos virtudes son tal vez una sola.

Sexuality and sexual difference are absolutely, and irreducibly, linked to the signifying order, yet this does not mean that sexual difference is a symbolic construction. Sex is real because it marks an irreducible limit (contradiction) of the signifying order (and not something beyond or outside this order).

While the idea of worshipping numbers may now seem bizarre, it perhaps reflects the scale of wonderment at the discovery of the first fragments of abstract mathematical knowledge. The excitement of learning that there is order in nature, when previously you were not aware that there was any at all, must have felt like a religious awakening.

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

The two disciples, on the other hand, in going away after the personage whose presence had been so impressively announced, were not obeying an order given by their old master, but were simply following the dictates of feelings which had been awakened in their breasts by all they had heard him say of Jesus, both on the present and on former occasions. They needed no injunction to seek the acquaintance of one in whom they felt so keenly interested: all they needed was to know that this was He.

the advocates of despotism have drawn arguments, not only against the forms of republican government, but against the very principles of civil liberty. They have decried all free government as inconsistent with the order of society, and have indulged themselves in malicious exultation over its friends and partisans

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain,Here earth and water seem to strive again,Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd:Where order in variety we see,And where, though all things differ, all agree.

Order is heaven's first law.

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee? Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,  Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. 

But deep down I always knew there is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.

Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.

We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.

Every year, I looked forward to Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things episode. I watched with my notebook computer in my lap so I could Google the items and order them for the friends and family on my holiday gift-giving list.

'Law & Order' is a dream come true. I grew up watching it! I always wanted to portray a character on the show because it's always so riveting.