To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.
...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.
Helen, marvelling at Joyce's capacity for self-protection, often wondered at her choice of career. It had something to do with order, she decided; Joyce mistrusted books for their content, but liked the way they could be marshalled. The readers were simply an unlooked-for hazard.
No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives...
I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
If ministers forget their ruler and establish relationships with foreign powers in order to advance the interests of their confederates, there will be scant reason for subordinates to obey their superiors.
In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
I collect many hats, but I do like Bailey's Hats, and I order them online.
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.
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.