Disorder Quotes

• I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Something

• I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.

  

  Halsey
  • Community
  • Race
  • Bisexual

• Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • Order
  • Delight
  • Disorder

• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Secret
  • Chaos
  • Disorder

• The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Teachers

• In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Manner
  • Disorder
  • Reduce

• People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • People
  • Produce
  • Injustice

• I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.

  

  Whitney Thompson
  • Change
  • Someone
  • Fail

• Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Free

• 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 The Doors
  • Interested
  • Disorder
  • Revolt

• I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Interested
  • Disorder
  • Revolt

• Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

  

  Epictetus
  • Reason
  • Shape
  • Regulate

• There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

  

  Allen Frances
  • Findings
  • Laboratory
  • Rays

• I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Work
  • Curiosity

• Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Pain
  • Problems
  • Drugs

• From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

  

  Confucius
  • State
  • Loving
  • Disorder

• I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

  

  William James
  • Doubt
  • Lovers
  • Loses

• I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Beautiful
  • Eternal
  • Overwhelmed

• Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Action
  • Establish
  • Disorder

• We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Order
  • Form

• As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Way
  • Social
  • Actresses

• It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Art
  • Design
  • Sweet

• If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Weight
  • Disorder

• Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Opposites
  • Equilibrium
  • Disorder

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