Quotes About Order

I believe in divine order all the time.

The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.

Exploding crime is not something that rights itself.

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months.

There is no lack of profitability or investment among these telecommunications companies. There is nothing that an open-internet order did to them that diminished their success.

I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.

I don't have the talent, the temperament, or the patience to be a great chef. I'd much rather order from someone who can really do it. I love restaurants. They make my life better.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, A cave where the cave men dwell; Then a sense of law and order, A face upturned from the clod; Some call it Evolution, And others call it God." Reprinted from The New England Journal.

People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment.

Message of the Legalists: without law, power lost its shape.

Ivan showed that in his time and place the only antidote to chaos was absolutism.

Realists value order above freedom: for them the latter becomes important only after the former has been established.

The policeman is the most important social worker we have. Often it is far better to settle an argument or disperse a crowd and move on than to make an arrest.

She'd become desensitized in order to deal with very visual depictions of evil manifested in man's inhumanity to man.

When our lives revolve around Christ we find order and harmony. And by implication, whenever something other than Christ—money, power, pleasure, honor—fills the center, the soul falls into disharmony. The well-ordered soul begins to wobble and go off-kilter.

However grand our sacramental downsittings and updressings may be, they remain only and precisely sacraments: real presences, under particular signs, of the happier order that faith can discover under any and all signs. They're a bit like the church. As long as we see them as an earnest of the kingdom, they're all right; when we put on airs and act as if they were the kingdom itself, they look just silly.

Clues from chaos, sense from madness.