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Quotes About Disordered

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~ Judy Blume
But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather disordered lives, if their emotions didn't ride them too hard—well, they wouldn't be able to catch those emotions in flight and imprint them on a few feet of celluloid or project them across the footlights.
~ Raymond Chandler
Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light.
~ Charles Wesley
This man dresses like an unmade bed.
~ Henny Youngman
Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country.
~ John C. Calhoun
Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture.
~ Monty Don
my digs look as if they've been dug
~ David Nicholls
She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, after all, a country girl; disordered, hysterical, loving. She was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red.
~ Laurie Lee
I am well and truly messed up.
~ Andrew Pyper
For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.
~ Danielle Steel
Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.
~ Gloria Steinem
He is clearly unhinging.
~ Georgette Heyer
Formidable women, with uncombed hair and disordered dress, gossiped while leaning on railings, or screamed in frantic quarrels.
~ Stephen Crane
Disordered thought detaches a person from reality, leading to altered perceptions and behavior, such as hallucinations and delusions. These psychotic symptoms can be terrifying, not just for people who experience them but also for people who witness them. They are also a major cause of the stigma attached to people with schizophrenia.
~ Eric R. Kandel
Our urge to avoid eating something that makes us feel sick is often at the root of disordered eating, as we swerve away from whole categories of foods that we imagine would make us feel uneasy.
~ Bee Wilson
Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.
~ Timothy Keller
I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
~ Ottessa Moshfegh
philosophy and religion may be called the exercises of the mind, and when this is disordered, they are as wholesome as exercise can be to a distempered body.
~ Henry Fielding
I would say that I'm a hot mess all the time.
~ Adam Rippon
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
~ George Washington
But what shall we say, when an individual discovers a revelation addressed to himself alone, on the same vast sheet of record. In such a case, it could only be the symptom of a highly disordered mental state, when a man, rendered morbidly self-contemplative by long, intense, and secret pain, had extended his egotism over the whole expanse of nature, until the firmament itself should appear no more than a fitting page for his soul's history and fate.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
All Fascism did not die with Mussolini. Hitler is finished--but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains. It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than it is to kill the ideas which gave them birth and strength.
~ Harry Truman
And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.
~ Donna Tartt