Sort pages in admin panel

I’d like to sort the pages in the admin panel’s “Manage Pages” by title. What would seem to me to be the way to go about doing this would be to change the

$posts = $wpdb->get_results(...

line to include

ORDER BY 'post_title' at the end of the query. Yet this has no effect on the display of the list! What am I missing?

SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'static' ORDER BY 'post_title'