Disorder Quotes - Page 2

• The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

  Richard J. Daley

  Silly, Dumb, Police

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• I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Obsessive Compulsive, Lines

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• When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Dream, Religious, Reflection

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• Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

  Robin Tunney

  Giving, Three, Actors

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• When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

  John Woolman

  Strong, Men, Understanding

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Cells

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• Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

  Gianni Agnelli

  War, Cities, Political

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• I think religion is a neurological disorder.

  Bill Maher

  Stupid, Thinking, Racist

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. February 15.

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• I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Girl, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Deep Life, Honor

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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

  Chaos, Starting, Revolt

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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 than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Knowledge, Library, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.

  J. William Fulbright

  Law, Long, May

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.114, Random House

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• Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Teacher, Order

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• Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

  Paul Ricoeur

  Order, Identity, Stories

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• The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

  Raymond Queneau

  People, Iliad, Thrown

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• Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

  Eliphas Levi

  Order, Awkward, Attention

  "The Great Secret, Or, Occultism Unveiled".

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• Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Variables

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.

  Robert Huber

  Years, Community, Accepted

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

  Margaret Cavendish

  Yield, Madness, Disgusting

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• I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

  Michael Jackson

  Skins, Helping

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, 1993.

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• True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Results, Stability

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.222, Bantam

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• I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2?

  Ned Beatty

  Depression, Bipolar, Problem

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• LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Temporary Insanity, Patient

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

  Carrie Fisher

  Depression, Teacher, Challenges

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