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Quotes About Ordered

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.
~ Ben Shahn
the Bible, all of it, is livable; it is the text for living our lives. It reveals a God-created, God-ordered, God-blessed world in which we find ourselves at home and whole.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river.
~ Eugie Foster
It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
~ Bertrand Russell
Our children were allowed to help when they were little, urged to help when they grew a little older, and sometimes ordered to help when they were teenagers.
~ Boyd K. Packer
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.
~ Sylvia Plath
If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
~ Bram Stoker
Evenings like these bore the joyful promise of a new sunny day of loosely ordered leisure and ornamented with countless and closely packed prospects of pleasant encounters.
~ Thomas Mann
O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.
~ Christopher Pearse Cranch
In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.
~ Alexander Berkman
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to be happy. But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to be happy. Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
It must be kept in mind, however, that optimism is not anything to be commanded or ordered. One cannot even force oneself to be optimistic indiscriminately, against all odds, against all hope. And what is true for hope is also true for the other two components of the triad inasmuch as faith and love cannot be commanded or ordered either.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.
~ Gurcharan Das
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.
~ Kenneth L. Pike
As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.
~ Aslaug Magnusdottir
Something among dusty shelves of ordered certitudes long divorced from reality, desiccating peacefully, as if a breath of that air which sees injustice done
~ William Faulkner
Almost a meal,' said Gwen. 'Which reminds me – I'm hungry. Anyone for pizza?' 'Already ordered,' announced Ianto smoothly as he handed her a mug of hot chocolate. 'Thanks, Ianto. You are a treasure, you know that?' He smiled. 'As a matter of fact, I do.
~ Unknown
An assistant could be just what the witch doctor ordered.
~ Darren Shan
contain into new, durable configurations, which can handle huge energy flows without disintegrating. This, we will see, is the characteristic pattern of all such thresholds. New configurations emerge quite suddenly as once independent entities are drawn into new and more ordered patterns, held together by an increasing throughput of free energy (see chapter 4).
~ David Christian
There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.
~ Herbert Hoover
And if we only have a guardian who has this knowledge our State will be perfectly ordered? Of course, he replied; but I wish that you would tell me whether you conceive this supreme principle of the good to be knowledge or pleasure, or different from either? Aye
~ Plato
It is so nondescript it is probably being ordered in bulk by MI6 for its female agents as an adjunct to tradecraft.
~ Unknown
But the Court of Criminal Appeals was not always a rubber stamp for the prosecution. Much to Mark Barrett's delight, he received the news on April 16, 1991, that a new trial had been ordered for Greg Wilhoit.
~ John Grisham