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Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander. -- Iwane Matsui
The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion. -- Paul Singer
I like things to be orderly. -- David Lynch
My filing system is messy but orderly. -- Tony Benn
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. -- Will Rogers
Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving. -- Barton Gellman
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. -- Margaret Mead
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. -- George Mikes
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. -- Clive Barker
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. -- Plato
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -- Gustave Flaubert
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. -- Eric Hoffer
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. -- Molly Ivins
When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter. -- Julia Cameron
I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level. -- Sandra Bullock
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. -- Bill Veeck
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. -- Joshua Foer
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free. -- Wendell Willkie
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. -- Ida B. Wells
Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness. -- Lois Lowry
The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others. -- Gordon W. Allport
People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time. -- Craig Brown
This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. -- David Bohm
It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' -- Arthur H. Compton
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. -- Robert Pinsky
Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way. -- Ina Garten
Life is too complicated not to be orderly. -- Martha Stewart
The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves. -- Lewis Tappan
I don't have a very logical and orderly mind. -- Richard Ford
very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys. -- Cynthia Ozick
Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly. -- Max Gunther
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. -- Albert Einstein
All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private. -- Michel de Montaigne
While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not. -- Joanna Trollope
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance. -- Agnes Repplier
If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy. -- Barack Obama
His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another. -- William Joyce
We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process. -- Barack Obama
The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly. -- Michel de Montaigne
The Universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator -- Nicolaus Copernicus
As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion. -- Alessandro Baricco
The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society. -- Charles Colson
Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity. -- John Tuzo Wilson
Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose. -- Henry Ward Beecher
memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically ... -- Elizabeth Kenny
An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey. -- Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly. -- Michel de Montaigne
When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction. -- Julia Cameron
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. -- Lawrence Welk
Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development. -- Jeff Hawkins
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers. -- Murray Rothbard
We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it. -- Jose Serrano
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution. -- Rudolf Arnheim
An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. -- Adam Smith
Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. -- Reif Larsen
Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible. -- Gustave Flaubert
People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others. -- George Albert Wells
A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. -- Abraham Maslow
When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question. -- Annabelle Selldorf
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. -- Alan Moore
Since there is no orderly way to liquidate the federal debt, we must brace for a payment crisis. -- Hans F. Sennholz
Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place. -- Ellen Hunnicutt
Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost. -- Helen Exley
Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal. -- Barack Obama
Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order. -- Gary Snyder
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. -- Baruch Spinoza
Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality. -- Kitaro Nishida
A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts. -- Isaac Asimov
The only real purpose of time is to escort humanity in and out of this mortal coil in an orderly fashion. -- Charles Stoll
Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged. -- J Harlen Bretz
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. -- Charles Wheelan
I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know? -- Jann Wenner
There were two dawns that morning. One the orderly sunrise of God, followed by man's fireball at the base of that rocket. -- Gordon Baxter
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art. -- Gustave Flaubert
A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius. -- Chester Barnard
Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s. -- Kedar Joshi
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end. -- Cees Nooteboom
...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone. -- Patricia A. McKillip
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival. -- Shirley Hufstedler
For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing. -- Sandra Dodd
I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science. -- Mary Roach
All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly ... -- Frances Trollope
When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder. -- Joan Halifax
Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper. -- Erika Slezak
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly. -- Gore Vidal
And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe. -- Isaac Asimov
So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power. -- David Letterman
Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors. -- Arthur Levitt
You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems. -- M. C. Escher
A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues. -- George Mikes
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles. -- Xun Zi
All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly. -- Confucius
For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing. -- Mark Strong
All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work. -- Kate Zambreno
It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us. -- Diana Trilling
Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong. -- Paul Theroux
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. -- Zygmunt Bauman
The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops. -- David Foster Wallace
Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind -- Thornton T. Munger
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity. -- David Hockney
The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope. -- Robert Dallek
We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place. -- Robert Heilbroner
From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence. -- Philip Johnson
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist. -- David Lack
The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders. -- H. G. Wells
When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. -- Duong Van Minh
It was totally unrealistic to think that because there had been wildly unlikely coincidences in the immediate past, that there would be more wildly unlikely ones turning up in orderly succession. Yet... -- Murray Leinster
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. -- Natalie Goldberg
If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run. -- Abraham Maslow

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