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Quotes About Order

Countless houses were reduced to big piles of bricks and wood, which is sort of what houses are, anyway, but in a different order.
~ Diane Morgan
Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long ever-recurring battle.
~ Dick Francis
The hungry person needs bread, the homeless person needs shelter, the one deprived of rights needs justice, the lonely person needs community, the undisciplined one needs order, and the slave needs freedom" (p. 97). Treating human beings as things, commodities, and machines is a special hindrance to receiving Christ
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
~ Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
~ Dolly Parton
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.
~ Don DeLillo
Novus Ordo Seclorum." - Roughly translated: The new order of the ages. This model of the bill has been used by the United States Treasury
~ Donald Allen Kirch
Don't move," he said, in a voice that was forty percent gravel and sixty percent inert materials.
~ Donald E. Westlake
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.
~ R. Lee Ermey
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
~ Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
~ Eudora Welty
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane
~ Hope Edelman
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
~ Vaclav Havel
There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
~ Fred Hoyle
Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God's appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.
~ Oswald Chambers
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.
~ Napoleon Hill
For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.
~ Winston Churchill
Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.
~ Jenna Fischer
Sorrio pra ela conferir. Tudo em seu devido lugar, pelo menos do lado de fora.
~ Jennifer Niven
Life equals structure plus activity.
~ Jenny Offill
Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Everything that's organized is racing toward being disorganized. It's nature's highest law.
~ Jeremy Leven