Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
Spike Milligan

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Douglas MacArthur

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Thomas Aquinas

Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison

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

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
John Stuart Mill

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Herman Melville

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Bertrand Russell

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Michelangelo

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Albert Schweitzer

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
Niels Bohr

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
Carter G. Woodson