Alphabetize/ordering in The Latin Alphabet

Famous quotes containing the words ordering, latin and/or alphabet:

    “Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)

    “Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.”
    —Georgie Anne Geyer (b. 1935)

    “Roger Thornhill: You’re police, aren’t you. Or is it FBI?
    Professor: FBI, CIA, O–I—we’re all in the same alphabet soup.”
    —Ernest Lehman (b.1920)