Disorder Quotes

I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

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.

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

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.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

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.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

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

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

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

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

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

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

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

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

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.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

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

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.

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.