ORDER QUOTES

quotations about order

Order quote

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Songs of the Damned

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Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit Redux

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I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

ELIZABETH MOON

The Speed of Dark


The world has not to be put in order: the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order, to know what is the world order in contradistinction to the wishful-thinking orders which we seek to impose on one another.

HENRY MILLER

"Creation", Henry Miller on Writing

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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

UMBERTO ECO

The Name of the Rose

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Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.

JOSE SARAMAGO

The Double

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For the world was built in order
And the atoms march in tune;
Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder,
The sun obeys them, and the moon.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Monadnock

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All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Cyrus' Garden

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If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

ALBERTO MANGUEL

The Library at Night


Set thine house in order.

BIBLE

Isaiah 38:1

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Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Conversations with Goethe

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Art ... is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

STEPHEN SONDHEIM

interview, July 5, 2005

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But order is not itself a virtue: it is only a means to an end. The end is general comfort and general convenience, and she never sacrifices the end to the means.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Home Builder

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Order is Heaven's first law.

ALEXANDER POPE

Essay on Man

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It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

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For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor?

VERA NAZARIAN

Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons


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

Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869-1905


Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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