Quotes About Order

Memory is the grid of meaning we impose on the random and bewildering flux of the world. Memory is the line we pay out behind us as we travel through time--it is the clue, like Ariadne's, which means we do not lose our way. Memory is the lasso with which we capture the past and haul it from chaos towards us in nicely ordered sequences, like those of baroque keyboard music.

The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves too keep them all in order

That's why I liked the Presbyterian church; we believed in doing things decently and in order. When you went to church, you knew exactly what you were going to get. We didn't want to be surprised or entertained. And, Lord knows, we didn't want anything changed.

It seemed to Vera now that the beauty of the eggs, the order, the strange friendships, had been all that had held him together through the depression following her mother's death. Or maybe he'd just been a selfish bastard, with a weird passion for collecting and owning things that would have been better left in the wild.

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.

I'm actually not a big coffee fan, so I don't drink it that much. I'd rather have a green tea. But I do love to get a white mocha sometimes - it is just a strong order.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

The rule of law is the most basic principle on which our Constitution is based.

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

I consider myself to be a man with my priorities in order.

Faith, family, and football is how I prioritize my life. And they all go together, but they go in that order.