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Quotes About Order

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
~ Milan Kundera
Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.
~ Henry Adams
there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.
~ Isabella Beeton
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.
~ Anais Nin
Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.
~ James Gleick
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
~ Joan Didion
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
~ John Ruskin
Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.
~ Julia Cameron
I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.
~ Susane Colasanti
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
~ Margaret Cavendish
He counted thirteen virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquillity, chastity, and humility. Soon
~ Jill Lepore
In the waning decades of the twentieth century, liberals and conservatives alike cast the lingering divisions of the 1960s less as matters of law and order than as matters of life and death. Either abortion was murder and guns meant freedom or guns meant murder and abortion was freedom. How this sorted out came to depend upon party affiliation.
~ Jill Lepore
Upshur believed that slavery solved the problem of the tensions between capital and labor by giving even a white man of desperate circumstances a reason to accept the economic order: "However poor, or ignorant or miserable he may be, he has yet the consoling consciousness that there is a still lower condition to which he can never be reduced."5 Tyler
~ Jill Lepore
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
~ Jim Collins
there has never been a revival of religion so long as the order of service has been strictly followed. ...we are to be led by the Holy Spirit.
~ Jim Cymbala
As we open up our church meetings to God's power, they will not always follow a predetermined schedule or order. Who can outline what God might have in mind?
~ Jim Cymbala
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.
~ Jim George
Rituals also help us to create structure in our lives.
~ Jim Loehr
that the United States is no longer a vibrant republic based on constitutional law but rather a brain-dead and decaying empire being taken over by an entrenched financial elite who seek a worldwide socialist order to dominate.
~ Jim Marrs
the United States is no longer a vibrant republic based on constitutional law but rather a brain-dead and decaying empire being taken over by an entrenched financial elite who seek a worldwide socialist order to dominate.
~ Jim Marrs
The goal of the Order was the abolition of all monarchical governments and state religions in Europe and its colonies and a return to humanistic rational thinking and reason.
~ Jim Marrs
There are three things you can do to help you establish and adhere to correct priorities: List the most important priorities in your life in order of importance Prove those priorities in real ways Prepare to protect those priorities for the rest of your life.
~ Jimmy Evans
The only fully ordered things are like, which are always perfect explanations.
~ João Ubaldo Ribeiro