Disorder Quotes - Page 19

• Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.

  Linwood Barclay

  Stars, Book, Writing

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• I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

  Ellen Forney

  Artist, Lineage, Mood

  "Ellen Forney On Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, And 'Marbles'". Interview with Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

  Sia Furler

  Panic, Fame, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.

  John C. Calhoun

  Strong, Mean, Government

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• It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

  Richard Louv

  School, Kids, Community

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• The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.

  Ronald Goldman

  Pride, Gay, Sick

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• I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Thinking, Healthy, Eating Disorder

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• From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments, I was pushed to theories of disequilibrium and disorder, and information and noise, as the keys to understanding economic progress.

  George Gilder

  Order, Punishment, Keys

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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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

  Beauty, Emphasis, Term

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• It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Important, Research, Medical

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

  Ben Marcus

  World, Information, Unstable

  "This week in fiction: Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.

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• I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

  Jeremy Miller

  Attention, Sitting, Classroom

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• 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

  Kids, Shy, Way

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• The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

  Ellen Ullman

  Yellow, Needs, Machines

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• As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Thinking, Hands, Library

  "Counsels and Maxims". Vol. 2, Ch. 22, § 257 "On Thinking for Yourself" as translated in "Essays and Aphorisms" by R. J. Hollingdale, 1970.

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• No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

  Kim Gordon

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Tolerance

  "Kim Gordon Details Thurston Moore Split, Trashes Courtney Love, Billy Corgan in Memoir" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. February 3, 2015.

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• The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Years, Ideas, Humanity

  "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 581, 1978.

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• The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  People, Justice, Criminals

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• Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

  Aimee Liu

  Gun, Anorexia, Eating Disorder

  Aimee Liu (2011). “Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Bowels, Humour

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

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• Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

  Emily Yoffe

  Smell, People, Eating Disorder

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.

  Francois Fenelon

  Running, Wine, Men

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• Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Order, Nymphs

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• If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Confused, Order, Confusion

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.440, GENERAL PRESS

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• It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Order, Society, Reform

  "Economic Sophisms". Book by Frederic Bastiat (translated), 1845.

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