Quotes About Order

I'm a person who believes in rules.

The urge to catalog the myriad blunders in order to "learn from the mistakes" is for the most part an exercise in denial and self-deception.

The impetus for most fundamentalist movements—whether Mormon, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, Muslim, or Jewish—is a yearning to return to the mythical order and perfection of the original church.

These answers are fine as far as they go - but still children die, things go wrong, and hearts get broken, so the answers don't go very far. I certainly can't dispose of the challenges to Christian belief, nor can I make an entirely rational case for the existence of God. What I can do is join a vast chorus of voices who see religion as intrinsic and seek to make their home in the ethos of a faith that suggests an order and a direction amid the confusions of life.

Flannery amava i cimiteri. Gli piacevano l'ordine e la bellezza artificiale che vi regnavano, perché sapeva che nascevano dal timore, dalla paura. Non certo dall'amore della gente per i propri defunti. Per lui i cimiteri non erano altro che inutili e patetici reliquiari che gli esseri umani cercavano di erigere per allontanare lo spauracchio della morte.

his new place would have to be clean and orderly, to signify self-mastery.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

sometimes you have to put your fears in order...

Home is the place with the most rules.

Dad used to say that sometimes you have to put your fears in order...

door. It was likewise ordered, that three hundred tailors should make me a suit of clothes, after the fashion of the country; that six of his majesty's greatest scholars should be employed to instruct me in their language; and lastly, that the emperor's horses, and those of the nobility and troops of guards, should be frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

In the earliest times, which were so susceptible to vague speculation and the inevitable ordering of the universe, there can have existed no division between the poetic and the prosaic. Everything must have been tinged with magic. Thor was not the god of thunder; he was the thunder and the god.

If an eternal traveler should journey in any direction, he would find after untold centuries that the same volumes are repeated in the same disorder-which, repeated, becomes order: the Order. My solitude is cheered by that elegant hope.

El orden inferior es un espejo del orden superior; las formas de la tierra corresponden a las formas del cielo; las manchas de la piel son un mapa de las incorruptibles constelaciones; Judas refleja de algún modo a Jesús.

Quain se arrepintió del orden ternario y predijo que los hombres que lo imitaran optarían por el binario y los demiurgos y los dioses por el infinito: infinitas historias, infinitamente ramificadas.

A good sentence in English has a structure that begins with the second most important element, moves to the least important element, and ends with the strongest element. The pattern is 2-3-1.

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man's thinking and doing.

An empty desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

It is a basic idea of practically every war mythology that the enemy is a monster and that in killing him one is protecting the only truly valuable order of human life on earth, which is that, of course, of one's own people.

Tienes que distinguir entre razón y pensamiento. Pensar como puedes echar abajo la pared no es razonar (...) La razón tiene que ver con hallar el fundamento del ser y la estructuración fundamental del orden del universo.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.