Quotes About Order

poner al Ejército firme, imponer el orden en este desastre, gobernar esta letrina, unos sopapos aquí y allá, los semanarios callados, el pueblo callado que es lo que le gusta, créame

I understand there is a need for a stable and orderly transition to that leadership, but that people should give me the space to ensure that happens and that this debate is not best conducted in the pages of the Mail on Sunday.

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitrary. Winkler was still on an airplane, hurtling north, but he was also pushing farther back, sinking deeper into the overlaps, to the years before he even had a daughter, before he had even dreamed of the woman who would become his wife.

The entropy of a closed system never decreases.

Nature demands symmetry.

total entropy of any system, said Dr. Hauptmann, will decrease only if the entropy of another system will increase. Nature demands symmetry.

The locusts have no king, yet all of them go out in ranks.

The total entropy of any system, said Dr. Hauptmann, will decrease only if the entropy of another system will increase. Nature demands symmetry. Ordnung muss sein.

Beneath their wimples the faces of the nuns of the order resemble dried thistles

everything shipshape

Ordnung muss sein.

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitrary.

Immediately, a codicillus, an order, was sent to Planasia to execute Agrippa Postumus.

The tribune in command of Agrippa's guard told a centurion to see to the matter.

the Senate ordered that the dead consuls' armies should be handed over to Decimus Brutus, he refused

the Roman state was remarkably nonbureaucratic; with no police force

was "to try always to master myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world.

he had expressed the belief that everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.