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Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder -- Paul Valery
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. -- Paul Valery
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder -- Paul Ricoeur
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. -- Paul Ricoeur
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots. -- Delmore Schwartz
Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. -- Eliphas Levi
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. -- John Ruskin
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. -- Thomas Griffith
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. -- Tony Blair
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
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
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. -- Albert Camus
Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children. -- Ayelet Waldman
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. -- Jane Jacobs
Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we look down at our children and cry, we make the world one shade brighter. That's what children do to us - and for us. -- Ben Shapiro
Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism. -- Henry Grunwald
The post office doesn't guarantee delivery, but it tries really hard. It's called best efforts communication. If you put two postcards in the post-box, they don't necessarily come out then in the same order that you put them in. So, that means that there's potentially disorder with your delivery, and that's also true in the Internet. -- Vint Cerf
Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. -- James Gleick
In the denial of disorder there is order. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The order I found was the order of disorder -- William Saroyan
The present order is the disorder of the future. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
The line between disorder and order lies in logistics... -- Sun Tzu
Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty. -- Orson Scott Card
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. -- Tom Robbins
ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order. -- E. M. Broner
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun. -- Laozi
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. -- Carl Jung
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order. -- Paul Valery
Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder. -- Hildegard Hamm-Brucher
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament. -- May Sarton
Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder. -- Mac Barnett
Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions. -- Sun Tzu
Order is never observed it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive -- Eliphas Levi
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one. -- Wallace Stevens
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art -- James A. Baldwin
It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it. -- Frederic Bastiat
Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder. -- Alexander Berkman
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. -- Walter Raleigh
Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination. -- Carla H. Krueger
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. -- Harold Bloom
The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other. -- Judith Malina
This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. -- James Baldwin
To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident. -- Emil Ruder
As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living. -- Jean Piaget
Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order. -- Richard Rohr
I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern. -- P. D. James
One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease. -- Paul Valery

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