Quotes About Order

Although it had been announced that the coffin would not be opened, it was, at Mrs. Cody's order. For two hours the crowd filed by, two abreast, parents holding their children shoulder high. The ceremonies were in the charge of Golden City Lodge No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, acting for the North Platte lodge of which Cody had been a member. The Masonic burial ritual was read, as was an original poem dedicated to the scout by A. F. Beeler.

They're really not trying to protect anyone from harm, they're just trying to keep their world smooth and under control. I

The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.

The logic of the language of poetry brings Amos to glimpse for a moment a new order of reality. Strictly speaking, this is not yet eschatology as it would be developed seven or eight centuries after Amos, but the imagination in prophetic poetry of restored national existence without want or pain or danger is an important way station to explicit doctrines of a radically new era that will replace earthly life as we know it.

What we present first changes the way people experience what we present to them next.

La respuesta tiene que ver, en parte, con un principio de la comunicación que, aunque es esencial, generalmente no se tiene demasiado en cuenta: aquello que mostramos primero modifica la forma en la que la gente percibe lo que presentamos después.

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. ...The law is a causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a citizen may walk safely.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

The trouble with, "A place for everything and everything in its place" is that there's always more everything than places.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, let that aye be your border.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip, To haud the wretch in order;

that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.

Programming is an act of creation. When we write code we are creating something out of nothing. We are boldly imposing order upon chaos. We are confidently commanding, in precise detail, the behaviors of a machine that could otherwise do incalculable damage. And so, programming is an act of supreme arrogance. Professionals

Structured programming is discipline imposed upon direct transfer of control.

The fact is that making messes is always slower than staying clean, no matter which time scale you are using.

Structured programming imposes discipline on direct transfer of control.

Programming is an act of creation. When we write code we are creating something out of nothing. We are boldly imposing order upon chaos.

The classical manifestation is the outlook of the religious prophet who says, "It is written . . ., but I say unto you. . . ." Weber's implication is that charismatic authority occurs in the context of a social movement that may arise outside of and in any event is in some manner opposed to the existing order—a radical movement, be it of religious, political, cultural, or other complexion.

The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Soldier, shut up and Soldier