O Quotes
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“Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.”
Source: Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author
“Order is its own reward.”
“Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.”
“Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.”
“Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.”
Source: Information Anxiety 2
“Order is not a question of law, it is a question of accountability.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.”
Source: HER LIFE AND WORK
“Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.”
“Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.”
Source: Process and reality: an essay in cosmology
“Order is nothing but a friendship with chaos.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness”
“Order is repetition of units.
Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.”
“Order is the disposition of things in which each gives to the other its room, its own proper place. That's the external aspect. The other is that order that springs from love: there's no other way of establishing order except through love.”
“Order is the greatest grace.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“Order is the key to all problems.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo: Abridged Edition
“Order is the law of all intelligible existence.”
Source: Lay Sermons
“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.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.”
“Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.”
“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”
“Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.”
“Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.”
Source: Dr. Watts' Psalms and hymns with Dr. Rippon's selection: containing all the additional hymns : with copious indices, including an index of the first line of each verse of Psalms and hymns
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“Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.”
“Order Out of Chaos ... At the right temperature ... two peptide molecules will stay together long enough on average to find a third. Then the little trio finds a fourth peptide to attract into the little huddle, just through the random side-stepping and tumbling induced by all the rolling water molecules. Something extraordinary is happening: a larger structure is emerging from a finer system, not in spite of the chaotic and random motion of that system but because of it.
Without the chaotic exploration of possibilities, the rare peptide molecules would never find each other, would never investigate all possible ways of aggregating so that the tape-like polymers emerge as the most likely assemblies. It is because of the random motion of all the fine degrees of freedom that the emergent, larger structures can assume the form they do. Even more is true when the number of molecules present becomes truly enormous, as is automatically the case for any amount of matter big enough to see. Out of the disorder emerges a ... pattern of emergent structure from a substrate of chaos....
The exact pressure of a gas, the emergence of fibrillar structures, the height in the atmosphere at which clouds condense, the temperature at which ice forms, even the formation of the delicate membranes surrounding every living cell in the realm of biology -- all this beauty and order becomes both possible and predictable because of the chaotic world underneath them....
Even the structures and phenomena that we find most beautiful of all, those that make life itself possible, grow up from roots in a chaotic underworld. Were the chaos to cease, they would wither and collapse, frozen rigid and lifeless at the temperatures of intergalactic space.
This creative tension between the chaotic and the ordered lies within the foundations of science today, but it is a narrative theme of human culture that is as old as any. We saw it depicted in the ancient biblical creation narratives of the last chapter, building through the wisdom, poetic and prophetic literature. It is now time to return to those foundational narratives as they attain their climax in a text shot through with the storm, the flood and the earthquake, and our terrifying ignorance in the face of a cosmos apparently out of control. It is one of the greatest nature writings of the ancient world: the book of Job.”
Source: Faith and Wisdom in Science
“Order provides the stabilities that we crave, but chaos creates the opportunities for change that we need. [...] Those who are waiting for internal order will be the subjects of external chaos, those who yield to internal chaos will be the architects of a new order.”
“Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.”
Source: Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter
“Order something so you don’t have to cook, and I’ll try to eat. I want you to have more protection, Lylah. I want you to have the entire fucking army surrounding you.” He frowns, his eyes still glued to mine. “I don’t know what I’d do if anything happened to you. I can’t lose anyone else.”
Source: You Will Be Mine: A Teen Slasher Thriller
“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.”
“Order without freedom is quiet tyranny; regulation must never become repression. The line between order and oppression is drawn in the ink of public consent.”
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“Order your brain to give you a good dream. That's what I do when I get sick of the bad ones.”
“Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”
“Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.”
Source: Measure of My Days
“Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.”
“Order, thou eye of action.”
Source: The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq.; in Four Volumes: Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, and of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With an Essay on the Art of Acting
“Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.”
“Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by numbers or by the language in which the text is written, every library translates the chaos of discovery and creation into a structured system of hierarchies or a rampage of free associations.”
Source: The Library at Night
“ordered me a sky from a florist”
“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.”
“Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...”
“Ordering online was all about ticking boxes. Species. Color. Size. Number. Grade of quality. Degree of openness. But there was something miraculous about seeing the flowers she'd imagined brought to life. Roses from Columbia. Chrysanthemums from Ecuador. Orchids from Thailand. Anemones and agapanthus from Spain. Stargazers and parrot tulips from the vast Dutch flower fields.”
Source: The Flower Arrangement
“Ordering pizza and jamming out with the contestants in our hotels and traveling the country together brought me so much joy.”
“Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.”
“Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.”
“Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.”
“Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.”
“Orders come from customers, not from leaders.”
“Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.”