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Quotes About Disorder

it is the pride of kings which throw mankind into confusion.
~ Thomas Paine
For the first time Topper's established routine of living gave place to a disorderly desire to live.
~ Thorne Smith
Innovation requires, above all else, a willingness to embrace chaos.
~ Tim Brown
Serge's attention-deficit disorder was the first of many hyphens. Obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive, anal-retentive, paranoid-schizophrenic. He was believed to be the only self-inflicted case of shaken-baby syndrome.
~ Tim Dorsey
Messy females talk noise!
~ Koena Mitra
Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.
~ Éliphas Lévi
Para realizarse, el amor necesita quebrantar la ley del mundo. En nuestro tiempo el amor es escándalo y desorden, transgresión: el de dos astros que rompen la fatalidad de sus órbitas y se encuentran en la mitad del espacio.
~ Octavio Paz
If you have a patient with a condition that's not understood why not ascribe it to a disorder that is also not understood? Autism occurs in males more than it does in females. So does higher order mathematical intuition. We think: What is this about? Dont know. What is at the heart of it? Dont know. All I can tell you is that I like numbers. I like their shapes and their colors and their smells and the way they taste. And I dont like to take people's word for things.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If psychosis was was just some synapses misfiring why wouldnt you simply get static?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself.
~ Cormac McCarthy
A dimly seething rabble had coagulated within.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
~ Cyril Connolly
And all the sky was teeming and tearing along, a vast disorder of flying shapes and darkness and ragged fumes of light and a great brown circling halo, then the terror of a moon running liquid-brilliant into the open for a moment, hurting the eyes before she plunged under cover of cloud again.
~ D.H. Lawrence
This was a career, not an emotional disorder.
~ Wally Lamb
Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Another way to describe the Second Law is in terms of entropy, the degree of disorder and randomness in a system. Any spontaneous process tends to increase the entropy of a system.
~ Walter Isaacson
Given a choice of order or justice, he often said, paraphrasing Goethe, he would choose order. He had seen too clearly the consequences of disorder.
~ Walter Isaacson
Actually, if "underdevelopment" were related to anything other than comparing economies, then the most underdeveloped country in the world would be the United States, which practices external oppression on a massive scale, while internally there is a blend of exploitation, brutality, and psychiatric disorder.
~ Walter Rodney
To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent food, and the wretched lodging of the lower classes, swept off many whose fate the survivors were tempted to envy, as exempting them from the evils which were to come.
~ Walter Scott
In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree.
~ Wendell Berry
When morality is reduced to personal preferences and when no one can be held morally accountable, society quickly falls into disorder.
~ Charles W. Colson
A cursory examination of the A&M order proved that Flash had fucked up. The stock numbers were in the wrong columns. The amounts were wrong. Everything was wrong. "Okay, new rule," Garris sighed to the empty store. "No more dope smoking in the stockroom while we're doing record orders.
~ Chet Williamson
making sense? what fun is there in making sense?"~ Discord
~ Hasbro My Little Pony
It looked like his ponytail had revolted against him," said Bramble.
~ Heather Dixon