Disorder famous quotes

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. Ammons

#Answers #Disorder #What Is Poetry

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
-- Alexander Berkman

#Evil #Liberty #Disorder

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

#Waiting #Made #Disorder

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Fishing #Want #Disorder

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Science #Disorder #Bowels

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

#Attention #Disorder #Deficit

Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
-- Ben Marcus

#World #Information #Disorder

I came, I saw, I was confused.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Confused #Saws #Disorder

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
-- C. V. Wedgwood

#Despair #Energy #Disorder

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
-- Christopher Dawson

#Anarchy #Individualism #Disorder

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

#Mail #Disorder #Spending

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
-- Darrell Hammond

#Personality #Schizophrenia #Disorder

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.
-- Darren Shan

#Worry #Disorder

I had an attachment disorder.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Attachment #Disorder

Golf is a mental disorder.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs

#Golf #Disorder #Mental Disorder

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
-- Elizabeth Ann Seton

#Family #Results #Disorder

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

#Trying #Disorder

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
-- Emily Carr

#Magnificence #Disorder

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey

#Love Is #Mental Illness #Disorder

Battle is an orgy of disorder.
-- George S. Patton

#Battle #Disorder

The present order is the disorder of the future.
-- Ian Hamilton Finlay

#Order #Disorder

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

#Thinking #Personality #Disorder

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

#Order #Two #Disorder

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

#Reality #Causes #Disorder

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

#Chaos #Starting #Disorder

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

#Mind #Ease #Disorder

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.
-- John Dufresne

#Disorder #Therapy #Persons

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

#Beauty #Disorder #Emphasis

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.
-- Julia McNair Wright

#Order #Disorder #Workers

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

#Practice #Astonishment #Disorder

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Years #Students #Disorder

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.
-- Louis Bacon

#Chaos #Embrace #Disorder

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
-- Louis Pasteur

#Mind #Disorder #Direct

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
-- Margaret Cavendish

#Yield #Madness #Disorder

Liberalism is a mental disorder.
-- Michael Savage

#Disorder #Liberalism #Mental Disorder

Disorder. But completeness...
-- Milton Resnick

#Order #Disorder #Completeness

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
-- Molly Ivins

#Funny Things #Disorder #Optimist

There is no disorder but the heart's.
-- Mona Van Duyn

#Heart #Disorder

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
-- Norman Doidge

#Stubborn #Habit #Disorder

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
-- Peter Drucker

#Organization #Friction #Disorder

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
-- Raymond Queneau

#People #Iliad #Disorder

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

#Disorder #Policemen

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 Koch

#Disorder #Observation #Microorganisms

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.
-- Rudolf Arnheim

#Opposites #Disorder #Equilibrium

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

#Suffering #Disorder #Episodes

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

#Fighting #Rooms #Disorder

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
-- Stephen Hawking

#Time #Disorder #Increase

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.
-- Stockwell Day

#Homosexuality #Disorder #Mental Disorder

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.
-- Theodore Roethke

#Beautiful #Overwhelmed #Disorder

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
-- Vita Sackville-West

#Sweet #Design #Disorder

In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.
-- Joyce Giraud

#Eating Disorder #Eating #Disorder

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.
-- Robert Atkins

#Character #Chemicals #Disorder