Quotes About Order

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.

our brains evolved to create certainty and order. We are uncomfortable with the idea that luck plays a significant role in our lives. We recognize the existence of luck, but we resist the idea that, despite our best efforts, things might not work out the way we want. It feels better for us to imagine the world as an orderly place, where randomness does not wreak havoc and things are perfectly predictable.

All'inizio ho creduto che avrei scritto in fretta. In realtà passo molto tempo a interrogarmi sull'ordine delle cose da dire, la scelta e la disposizione delle parole, come se esistesse un ordine ideale, l'unico capace di restituire una verità su mia madre – ma non so in cosa consista –, e nel momento in cui scrivo non conta nient'altro per me che la scoperta di quell'ordine.

Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order.

I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

I like things in their proper places.

I am a control freak. I want everything to be prim and proper.

I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.

Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

The actions I took at a time of national crisis in 2003 were necessary to protect lives and property and restore law and order. Regrettably, lives were lost among both the government forces and armed protesters.

I don't order laws, I propose them.

Since the end of the Cold War, peace, prosperity, and progress have largely been the order of the day for hundreds of millions of people in the Americas, but not for the people of Cuba.

Once there was a need for people like me to fight, to put things in order. Now we have order and prosperity.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

You are free to protest peacefully, but the minute you use violence and attack police, all bets are off.

We understand that there is a certain protocol. You have to do press in order to continue, and we understand that. It's not like I sit at home with a picture of some press guy shooting darts at him.

Open the whisky, Tom,' she ordered, 'and I'll make you a mint julep. Then you won't seem so stupid to yourself... Look at the mint!

The reaction came when he realized the waste and extravagance involved. He somtimes looked back with awe at the carnivals of affection he had given, as a general might gaze upon a massacre he had ordered to satisfy an impersonal blood lust.

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.