Order In Chaos Quotes

#1. Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Robert Hayden

#2. At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

Dean Koontz

#3. Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.

Frederick Lenz

#4. a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.

Lindsey Drager

#5. Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

George Peabody

#6. The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.

Robertson Davies

#7. We must therefore be willing to get shaken up, to submit ourselves to the dark blossomings of chaos, in order to reap the blessings of growth.

Gregg Levoy

#8. Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

Alexander Pope

#9. We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Rebecca Makkai

#10. People believe in conspiracies because it's a way of believing that deep down, horror has some order and meaning, even if that meaning is evil. We don't support chaos, but there's no question that life is

Rosa Montero

#11. The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

John Maynard Keynes

#12. Chaos... by its very definition cannot be controlled. Once introduced, all order and intention is rendered useless. The outcome of chaos can never be predicted. The only certainty it brings... is the devastation it leaves in its wake.

Emily Thorne

#13. Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.

Wolf Kahn

#14. We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time - inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.

Alain De Botton

#15. Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

Immanuel Kant

#16. C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.

Frederick Lenz

#17. In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

John Robbins

#18. It is only in the dance between chaos and order that life progresses.

Harrison Owen

#19. I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

Dwight Yoakam

#20. Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao.

Osho

#21. One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

Niccolo Machiavelli

#22. Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.

Dimitri A. Bogazianos

#23. Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#24. Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?

Marie Windsor

#25. You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

John C. Lilly

#26. I didn't take care of the kids. I took care of the interior decoration of the house. I wanted to be an architect, so I curated that aspect of things. In the middle of the chaos, I moved things around and rearranged everything to find my order.

Giovanna Cau

#27. Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Terry Pratchett

#28. expresses how the Creator solves the problems he needs to solve in order to bring creation out of chaos. Therefore, we have every reason to suppose that the succession of days was not meant to refer to a chronological succession but to a logical, thematic, and literary succession. In

Gregory A. Boyd

#29. I'd take out an army, burn down an entire city, and throw the world into chaos if I had to in order to keep Kat out of that place.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#30. immanent in their willingness to break the law was not so much a desire to sow chaos as a compulsion to instate a more just legal order. To the extent that our current rule of law is more capacious and emancipatory than its predecessors were, we owe much of that gain to lawbreakers.

James C. Scott

#31. Even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites - but often thwarts - our investigation and our understanding.

Dean Koontz

#32. We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.

Vladimir Putin

#33. Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana

#34. Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art ...

Alfred Brendel

#35. It wasn't in church but in moments like this when I maybe believed in God or something like that. Some order to the chaos, some meaning. That we collide with the people we need, that we meet the ones who will love us, that there's some underlying reason to everything.

Megan Miranda

#36. We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#37. Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Jane Jacobs

#38. In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order.

Jeffrey Fry

#39. Happy Tuesday! We are responsible for peace and order in our lives! When your world is CONSTANTLY filled with chaos, then it's time to take a look at SELF!

Tracey Edmonds

#40. Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

Bernard Crick

#41. There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Kurt Vonnegut

#42. He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.

Joseph Heller

#43. The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.

Ernst Haas

#44. I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

Virginia Woolf

#45. In order to understand peace one must have an good knowledge of chaos. -GB

George Brown

#46. The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos ...

Katherine Paterson

#47. You've asked enough questions about evil. But you never asked once about love."
So I asked him to tell me about it, but of course his definition lay beyond words. He just went on sitting with me in the dark and taking the weight of my pain.

Susan Howatch

#48. We must always have order in this house. Everything has a time and a purpose. If we maintain order ... "
"We never leave chaos an opening to creep in," I finish, and look up at her.

Kiersten White

#49. Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

James A. Garfield

#50. But reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared.

Philip K. Dick

#51. We are chasing happiness, and don't care about happiness of people who matter. Probably, we got our priorities right, but failed to set an order.
We created a chaos hoping the world would fall in place itself..

Crestless Wave

#52. You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

Rick Riordan

#53. She had married him in order to be safe from the chaos. He had married her, she now understood, for the same reason. They were the last two people on earth who could make anyone safe from anything.

Kate Atkinson

#54. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.

Rick Riordan

#55. I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#56. Because. Because in all the breadth of time, in all of this scattered light and infinite darkness, in all these millions of years and circumstances and changes and challenges, in the order and chaos, it's brought me to you. How can you see something like that as anything but beautiful?

Brandon R. Chinn

#57. The universe sings a deep, eternal song, sound in waves, in deep sighs, in whispers, in swirling chords and rising, falling tones. The music of the worlds, weaving in a pattern that is both chaos and order, both beauty and terror, without beginning, without end.

Jessica Khoury

#58. If love and beauty were easy to find, they would not exist.
Chaos and sadness exist in order for you to find the love and beauty in them. So that love and beauty mean something.
It's meant to be hard.

Pleasefindthis

#59. Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

Leon Edel

#60. Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Sydney J. Harris

#61. Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world's in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#62. Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.

Dean Koontz

#63. In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

C. G. Jung

#64. Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle ... But novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding a gunnel, the other a hat.

Michael Ondaatje

#65. Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

William Irwin Thompson

#66. It was what his mother would have done in the circumstances. Boiled some fresh water, warmed the pot and counted out the spoonfuls of tea. Setting domestic order against the chaos, in the hope of winning some temporary reprieve from the vale of tears.

Clive Barker

#67. I keep order in a world full of chaos. I am perceived as evil, but true evil? The type that people fear - it masquerades as something far more worse than darkness." ~ Luca Nicolosi, Elect by Rachel Van Dyken

Rachel Van Dyken

#68. Every chaos has an order hidden in it. What we see as a chaos, is actually driven by a very disciplined and dedicated order of things. What we need to do is focus on the stuff before us, make our way through this chaos, and that order will sort itself out for us

Sapan Saxena

#69. We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

Julianne Moore

#70. We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos. We

Alan W. Watts

#71. The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.

Eric S. Rabkin

#72. All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

Otto Dix

#73. Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.

Marty Rubin

#74. Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

#75. Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

Hannah Arendt

#76. When catastrophe strikes, we look for a signal in the noise - anything that might explain the chaos that we see all around us and bring order to the world again.

Nate Silver

#77. Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

James T. Walsh

#78. There was no plan for us. We are a misspelling being erased by Death in order for the story of total chaos to continue.

Keith Buckley

#79. The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos.

Toba Beta

#80. Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Stephen Sondheim

#81. In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

Novalis

#82. I think a call to Chaos is in order," Blake said, looking at Cole.
Cole nodded, and Beckett smiled. "Thanks," he said.

Debra Anastasia

#83. Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

Carl Sagan

#84. When we try to imagine a chaos we fail ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

George Iles

#85. Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.

Russell Kirk

#86. He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his dreambook and began to write.

Alan McCluskey

#87. To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things.

Louise Penny

#88. At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

Frederick Lenz

#89. To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Hermann Hesse

#90. Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

Samuel R. Delany

#91. There seems to be a kind of order in the universe ... in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

Katherine Anne Porter

#92. There was a certain beauty in the chaos, a certain order in the mess.

Sarah Fine

#93. There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.

Aaron Sorkin

#94. What Paul is saying is that when we "do church," we are to do it in a proper and fitting manner. There should be order, not chaos. There should be sensibility, not insensitivity. There should be consistency, not discord. There should be guidance, not irresponsibility.

Robert H. Welch

#95. The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#96. There is trouble in my mind
There is dark, there's dark and there is light
There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime
There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind

Jakob Dylan

#97. When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

Elizabeth Bowen

#98. Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived.
Anarchy in black.

Mark Millar

#99. It seemed to me that their love was based on their common need for order and mannerliness in their lives. Both had endured lives of chaos and incivility in their first marriages, and they provided each other with safe harbor at last. The town of Waterford had

Pat Conroy

#100. Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.

John Cage