Quotes about Order
The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of eye and mind for symmetry, harmony, and order.
— Edith Wharton
Good order is the foundation of all things.
— Edmund Burke
The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, I mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.
— Edmund Burke
Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee.
— Anonymous
There's order everywhere: the stars, the seasons, the currents of the ocean, the air that moves over the planet, down to the cells that make up everything. I don't believe that's by chance or a series of accidents. It takes intelligence to create all that, intelligence beyond anything human beings can understand. That's part of why I believe in God.
— Francine Rivers
Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order. And how does that help us against these disorderly women who hunt us? What branch of evolution are they? Is evolution just another name for God?
— Frank Herbert
The Duke felt in this moment that his own dearest dream was to end all class distinctions and never again think of deadly order.
— Frank Herbert
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things.
— Frank Herbert
There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises.
— Madeleine L'Engle
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Stars, galaxies, circled in cosmic pattern, and the joy of unity was greater than any disorder within.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules
— Samuel Johnson