Order Quotes

Timing degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

~ R. I. Fitzhenry

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

~ Horace Mann

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

~ William Blake

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

~ Winston Churchill

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

~ G. K. Chesterton

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.

~ Doris Lessing

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a more convenient season.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

God created us to rule, to lead and use all His riches to establish His order

~ Sunday Adelaja

But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker, I knew equally well. And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

~ Charles Dickens

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

~ Meister Eckhart

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

~ Arthur Erickson

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

~ Gustav Heinemann

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

~ Sherman Alexie

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Good order is the foundation of all things.

~ Edmund Burke

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

~ John Burroughs

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

~ Caspar David Friedrich

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

~ Albert Einstein

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

~ Ramana Maharshi

Intelligence is often viewed as a profession that steals secrets and then knits those secrets together for policymakers in order to inform their judgments.

~ Michael Hayden

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

~ Ayn Rand

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

~ Le Corbusier

What people want, above all, is order.

~ Stephen Gardiner

What's my favourite food? One you order out.

~ Abigail Breslin

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

~ Pete Townshend

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

~ James Prescott Joule

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

~ Immanuel Kant

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

~ Dorothy Day

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

~ David Attenborough

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

~ José Saramago

I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

~ Bernardo Bertolucci

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

~ Tig Notaro

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

~ Rick Moody

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

~ Leo Fender

The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.

~ Ray Comfort

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

~ Daniel Burnham

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

~ Steve Martin