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Quotes About Order

I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
~ Larry David
I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe.
~ Lisa Randall
You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
~ Virginia Woolf
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
~ Henry Norris Russell
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 Mendeleev
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated.
~ Russell Means
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
~ J. William Fulbright
I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
~ Gabrielle Union
We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.
~ Joshua Bell
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
~ Charles Lawrence
A world of derived beings, an immense, wide creation, requires an extended scale with various ranks and orders of existence.
~ William Godwin
The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of an orderly home, a successful family, and the successful lives of the children. The wife is the key.
~ Helen Andelin
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
~ John Milton
I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the wild, passionate creative temperament.
~ Leslie Jamison
I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Letting the markets and seasons dictate my dinners means I never get bored or tempted to order takeout.
~ Brad Leone
I've always been kind of a play-by-the-rules girl; I tend to like things structured, predictable, and sometimes even a little boring.
~ Cheryl Burke
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.
~ Ellen Key
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
~ Lars von Trier
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
~ Daniel Barenboim
I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
~ Samantha Power
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
~ George Oppen