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Quotes About Order

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
~ Adrienne Rich
Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life
~ Irvine Welsh
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
~ Jean Anouilh
Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
~ Mindy Kaling
It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.
~ R. F. Delderfield
Learn how to regulate one's own house well.
~ Chilon of Sparta
The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
~ James Gleick
Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.
~ Guy Finley
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.
~ Cees Nooteboom
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
~ Elizabeth Moon
There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.
~ Frederick Lenz
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
~ Anne Stevenson
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.
~ John French Sloan
For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
~ Jonathan Mayhew
Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.
~ Lord Byron
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
~ Novalis
For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.
~ Sandra Dodd
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
~ Solon
Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
~ Bill Mollison
Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.
~ Saul Bellow
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
~ E. M. Forster