ORDER QUOTES IV

quotations about order

In ordering one's self aright one helps others to do the same.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Jack and Jill: A Village Story

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The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos.

TOBA BETA

Master of Stupidity


Rules meant order. Without them they'd be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

LOUISE PENNY

A Rule Against Murder


The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789

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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

ANTONIN ARTAUD

letter to Andre Gide, February 10, 1935

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All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal -- a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world -- two snake-pits.

JOHN GARDNER

Grendel

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till at his second bidding darkness fled,
Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.

JULIO CORTAZAR

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds


Order and disorder ... they each have their beauty.

ORSON SCOTT CARD

Speaker for the Dead

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For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

The Common Reader

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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

KARL PEARSON

The Grammar of Science


From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

TONY HILLERMAN

Coyote Waits


True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

TOM ROBBINS

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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