Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.
One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don't forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
You can't skip a step and assume you're going to get to where you want to be.
The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow.
There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.
The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
