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Order Quotes


"In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime."


"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."


"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."


"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."


"The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be."


"Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao."


"In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk."


"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."


"2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically."


"What seems to be a chaotic life is just a systematic, engineered Life driven for a purpose!!! The day you find peace in chaos, the game changes!"


"The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle."



"Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created."


"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."


"God has created the world to be run by His principles."


"The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone."


"The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room."


"Without a relationship with God, it is not possible to have order in your life."


"Order is what exists before you start arranging things."


"Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God."


"Think about Isis, Jaz repeated. "And Sadie, thereis a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins."


"I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors."


"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."



"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."


"He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting."


"For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator's precision."


"Discipline is a demand of life."


"But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential."


"I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos."


"Overrated is order."
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