Quotes About Disorder

Do you know what lies beyond the advancing winds? Chaos.

Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.

Hamilton lacked the temperament of a true-blue revolutionary. He saw too clearly that greater freedom could lead to greater disorder and, by a dangerous dialectic, back to a loss of freedom. Hamilton's lifelong task was to try to straddle and resolve this contradiction and to balance liberty and order.

Einstein had, for the first time connected new and measurable consequences to statistical physics. That might sound like a largely technical achievement, but on the contrary, it represented the triumph of a great principle: that much of the order we percieve in nature belies an invisible underlying disorder and hence can be understood only through the rules of randomness.

Te estás empezando a marchitar, ¿sabes?, y cuando llega ese momento nadie puede evitar que sus pétalos estén desordenados.

She gazed into space, afflicted by sudden deafness, a common disorder in felines.

Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you've pretty much guaranteed the crime.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From disorder, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

A library undermines whatever order it might possess, with random pairings and casual fraternities.

Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic.

You can't do much about a personality disorder. Cats are psychopaths at heart.

But sometimes cats just have nasty natures, don't you think? And you can't do much about a personality disorder. Cats are psychopaths at heart.

Gardeners impose human values on disorderly nature, knowing full well that nature must win in the end. Gardening is gentle gallantry. - Rosemary Butler

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

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.

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

Yes, sir." "I don't know what the doctors are looking for, but they should be told that a pristine bullet has been found." The disorder of the apartment

I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. 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 towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

TABLE 2.1 The Spectrum of Manic Symptoms