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Quotes About Order

I've always talked and like to organise as much as possible.
~ Conor Coady
I went to audition for an episode of 'Law and Order,' and they didn't understand why I was talking so fast, and I was like, 'No, you don't understand. I was on a show called the 'Gilmore Girls.' We had to say everything like that.'
~ Sebastian Bach
Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.
~ Alissa Quart
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next.
~ Diane Ackerman
The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.
~ Richard J. Foster
Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.
~ Richard J. Foster
We have these meetings every couple of days. We're rebuilding Hell after it went up in flames like a flash-paper bikini when the original Lucifer, the real Lucifer, blew out of town after sticking me with the job. The trouble for the rest of the Council is that I don't know how fast I want Downtown back in working order.
~ Richard Kadrey
I still have some of Sinclair's money in my pocket so when a waitress comes over and doesn't throw me out I order coffee. That seems to confuse her and she starts naming alternatives. "Maybe you mean an Americano? Maybe a flat white or a macchiato?" "Those all sound like wrestling holds. I just want coffee.
~ Richard Kadrey
Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. Many parents now believe outdoor play is verboten even when it is not; perception is nine-tenths of the law.
~ Richard Louv
Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order.
~ Richard Louv
In other words, it is precisely because we have lost our grasp of the nature of knowledge that we have nothing to educate with for the salvation of our order.
~ Richard M. Weaver
There was a stubborn strain of authoritarianism in More that embarrasses some of his modern admirers. Having never revolted against his own father, he could be merciless to those who dared to rebel against the surrogate fathers that every society raises as a standard of order in the world.
~ Richard Marius
Logic: Does this really make sense? Does that follow from what you said? How does that follow? Before you implied this and now you are saying that, I don't see how both can be true. When we think, we bring a variety of thoughts together into some order. When the combination of thoughts are mutually supporting and make sense in combination, the thinking is "logical." When the combination is not
~ Richard Paul
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle's diameter into its circumference.
~ Richard Preston
The zone plan drafted by Whitten and published by the Atlanta City Planning Commission in 1922 explained that "race zoning is essential in the interest of the public peace, order and security and will promote the welfare and prosperity of both the white and colored race.
~ Richard Rothstein
Only in 1962, when President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order prohibiting the use of federal funds to support racial discrimination in housing, did the FHA cease financing subdivision developments whose builders openly refused to sell to black buyers.
~ Richard Rothstein
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
~ Richard Russo
El éxito de la ciencia es desvelar el ordenamiento profundo del mundo natural, nos da una base firme para aceptar que hay una causa aun mas profunda para dicho orden. Dios no es una explicación alternativa a la ciencia, es la base de toda explicación, en el sentido de que es la existencia de Dios la que da lugar a la posibilidad de explicación.
~ Richard Swinburne
Genuine modesty sets one to creating order and inspires one to begin by disciplining one's own ego and one's immediate circle. Only through having the courage to marshal one's armies against oneself, will something forceful really be achieved.
~ Richard Wilhelm
How?" I demanded. "How could you have screwed this one up?" "When I got in, they said the manager was on the phone and would be a few minutes. So, I sat down and ordered a drink." This time, I did lean my forehead against the steering wheel. "What did you order?" "A martini." "A martini." I lifted my head. "You ordered a martini before a job interview." "It's a bar, Sage. I figured they'd be cool with it.
~ Richelle Mead
Well, " she replied dryly, "there's no getting around that. And it's not me being nice. It's not even my choice. It's an order from my superiors. " "It still sounds like a pain in the ass for you. Why don't you just tell me where it is and blow them off? " "You obviously don't know the people I work for. " "Don't need to. I ignore authority all the time. It's not hard once you get used to it.
~ Richelle Mead
I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something -- like, say, organization ...
~ Richelle Mead
Throughout my training we always had a mantra; They come first. If I had really and truly screwed up my future, I'd have a new mantra; A comes first. Then B, C, D...
~ Richelle Mead
She located a code on the document and used her computer terminal to look it up. "Postal money order." Daphne said, "Difficult if not impossible to trace.
~ Ridley Pearson