Laurence Sterne Quotes

I always think that women are the chaos managers of life.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Order doesn't come by itself.

I am an organization freak!

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

Let all things be done decently and in good order.

You have these great institutions spinning around you with great centrifugal force. You have to try to keep them spinning around the center.

In England there has always been more liberty, but worse organization, while in other countries there is better organization, but less liberty.

In government it is order that matters.

Since all people do not do their duty and some, on the contrary, commit injustices, for the sake of keeping order in society, injustices and all enterprises against this order must be repressed: which was possible only through authority given to some over others, and which made government necessary.

Are we really certain that the mechanism of society, like the mechanism of the heavenly bodies or the mechanism of the human body, is subject to general laws? Are we really certain that it is a harmoniously organized whole? Or is it not true that what is most notable in society is the absence of all order?

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

No group in any sector can go anywhere without rules.

I'm the total organizer. Everything's got a system. It's in order.

I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.

I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in France than in America.

We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men carrying out killings for bosses. But the way things happen in the Middle East is not the same as in the West.

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.

It takes real planning to organize this kind of chaos.

The CEO's job is always about leadership. It's about leadership in a vision, in terms of where you're going, it's about making sure that you have the right organization and staff, and that you have kind of clearly communicated what some of the plays are and what some of the goals are in terms of the business and how do you organize together in order to make that happen.

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.