James Montgomery Quotes

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

A sequence works in a way a collection never can.

Let all things be done decently and in good order.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form.

Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.

Once you've finished typing and moving text around and everything else, you have to leave it alone for a while. You do that to see if it stands up, to see if all the loose edges have been trimmed, if it makes sense, if it's consistent, what shape it really has. You can't tell that while you're working on it.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.

Disorder brings about order.

The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army.

Good writing is everything.

I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning.

I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.