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Quotes About Order

Stars, galaxies, circled in cosmic pattern, and the joy of unity was greater than any disorder within.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.
~ Maira Kalman
One thing I have learned, my friend, there is no such thing as the future. The future is just what we invent in the present to put an order over the past.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
In a city, relatively minor problems like graffiti, public disorder, and aggressive panhandling, they write, are all the equivalent of broken windows, invitations to more serious crimes:
~ Malcolm Gladwell
There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
~ Jack Vance
Some people pray for miracles ... with Cosmic Ordering YOU manifest them!
~ Stephen Richards
The value of routine
~ trusting your swing.
Discipline is one of the basic and primary requirements for success in life.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.
~ George William Russell
No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .
~ Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
~ Taylor Mali
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
~ Xunzi
Unlikely though it may seem today, the nineteenth century was indeed a time when it was assumed, in both fiction and geology, that Nature was moderate and orderly: this was a distinctive mark of a new and 'modern' worldview.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Un bourgeon, une feuille morte, la mort et la vie Le fruit du hasard, non, un principe établi
~ Amos Oz
In the early 1990s, at the beginning of the Taliban regime, there had been a sort of relief that there was some law and order in the country, but that quickly turned bitter when the shariah was enforced.
~ Amulya Malladi
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
We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the life, although we live by irresistible impulses, as if the order in the closets, in our papers, in our books, in our photographs, in our souvenirs, in our clothes could preserve us from chaos in our feelings, loves, in our work. Indifference to food, sobriety; but this, we admit, is the part of the war against a threatening fragility.
~ Anais Nin
Everything could undergo conversion except the artists. How can you convert disorganizers of past and present order, the chronic dissenters, those dispossessed of the present anyway, the atom bomb throwers of the mind, of the emotions, seeking to generate new forces and a new order of mind out of continuous upheavals?
~ Anais Nin
The mold we give to our lives is so that there will be no cataclysms. The order we seek we are willing to surrender to the flow of life at any time, but it is there as a brake on a car, and our health is a brake. We put brakes on, against our temperament. he said, "Even a room, arranged in a certain manner, prevents certain things from taking place in it.
~ Anais Nin
The longer I live, the more certain I am that there are no accidents in life. There are no chance meetings; everything happens according to a plan, regularly and in order.
~ Anatoli Boukreev
Unfortunately, the laws of thermodynamics guarantee that the entropy in the universe tends toward a maximum.
~ Andrew Hunt
Don't let entropy win.
~ Andrew Hunt
order for all your work, my friend: First
~ Andrew Murray
Just when we lose hope and believe life to be chaos, fate provides a pattern
~ Andrew Sean Greer