quotes about Disorder
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
-- A. R. AmmonsSource : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
-- Alexander BerkmanSource : Alexander Berkman (2003). “What is Anarchism?”, p.234, AK Press
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Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.
-- Allen Frances -
Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
-- Andrew Young -
Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
-- Ben Marcus -
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Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
-- C. V. Wedgwood -
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
-- Christopher Dawson -
If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.
-- Dan John -
I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
-- Darrell HammondSource : "Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.
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One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.
-- Darren Shan -
Golf is a mental disorder.
-- Edgar Rice BurroughsSource : Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs: 70+ Adventure Classics & Science Fiction Novels (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Chronicles, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Moon Trilogy, The Venus Series, Westerns, Lost World Novels, Fantasy Classics, Historical Novels and more”, p.7310, e-artnow
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Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
-- Elizabeth Ann Seton -
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There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
-- Emily CarrSource : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.10, D & M Publishers
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love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
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The present order is the disorder of the future.
-- Ian Hamilton FinlaySource : Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alec Finlay (2012). “Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections”, p.53, Univ of California Press
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Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.
-- Jarvis Cocker -
As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.
-- Jean Piaget -
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
-- Jim Morrison -
When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.
-- Joan Halifax -
Every person in therapy has a love disorder.
-- John DufresneSource : John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.140, W. W. Norton & Company
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Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived in Christological terms-as disorder redeemed.
-- John Walford -
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disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.
-- Julia McNair WrightSource : Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”
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I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.
-- Lee Kuan YewSource : The Straits Times, August 17, 2004.
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As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.
-- Louis Bacon -
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The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
-- Louis Pasteur -
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
-- Margaret Cavendish -
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
-- Michael SavageSource : Michael Savage (2011). “Abuse of Power: A Thriller”, p.312, St. Martin's Press
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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
-- Molly Ivins -
There is no disorder but the heart's.
-- Mona Van DuynSource : Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.57, Knopf
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Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
-- Norman DoidgeSource : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.20, Penguin
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The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
-- Peter Drucker -
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
-- Raymond Queneau -
Get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.
-- Richard J. Daley -
From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.
-- Robert KochSource : Robert Koch (1987). “Essays of Robert Koch”, Praeger Pub Text
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Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.
-- Rudolf ArnheimSource : Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.25, Univ of California Press
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I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.
-- Scott Weiland -
I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.
-- Sean Connery -
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
-- Stephen Hawking -
Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.
-- Stockwell Day -
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I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.
-- Theodore RoethkeSource : Theodore Roethke (2001). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose of Theodore Roethke”, p.203, Copper Canyon Press
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.
-- Joyce Giraud -
Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.
-- Robert AtkinsSource : Robert C. Atkins (2000). “Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution”, G K Hall & Company
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