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Quotes About Disorder

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
For example, a patient may demonstrate characteristics that lead to diagnoses of both borderline personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
~ Jerold J. Kreisman
People can handle an unjust world; it's when the world becomes arbitrary and inexplicable that order breaks down.
~ Jess Walter
These patches of disorder make no difference—it is a house too spectacular to suffer distraction, forgiving of oversight and mess.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.
~ Kofi Annan
Organization is the Devil's work.
~ Unknown
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
~ Kate Forsyth
Chaos, panic and disorder- my work here is done
~ Unknown
Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
~ Unknown
The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we're lucky.
~ Unknown
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
~ Vance Havner
A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.
~ Onyi Anyado
This is the satisfaction of a successful work of fiction--the internal coherence that reality does not have. Life as lived is disordered, undirected, and at the mercy of contingent events.
~ Penelope Lively
The jumbled brick and stone of the city's landscape is a medley of style in which centuries and decades rub shoulders in a disorder that denies the sequence of time.
~ Penelope Lively
There are those who say further that these are meer Dreames and no true Relations, but I say back to them: look upon my Churches in the Spittle-fields, in Limehouse, and now in the Parish of Wapping Stepney, and do you not wonder why they lead you into a darker World which on Reflection you know to be your own? Every Patch of Ground by them has its Hypochondriack Distemper and Disorder; every Stone of them bears the marks of Scorching by which you may follow the true Path of God.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Something piqued his curiosity and he wanted to know more. There was no order to it, neither in his mind nor in his filing system. He would plunge into a subject with cavalier disregard for its chronological development. And
~ Peter Robinson
The health problems caused by clutter aren't just physical. In 1996, psychologists defined compulsive hoarding syndrome as a psychological disorder. In homes with severe cluttering, the residents nearly always suffer from anxiety or depression or both.
~ Peter Walsh
Beyond the wild animals that posed a regular safety concern anywhere in Kenya, it was believed that the high elevation of Kijabe would leave the missionaries susceptible to "Kenya nerves" –a mythical neurological disorder that led to acute anxiety and other psychologically linked ailments. p21
~ Unknown
There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.
~ Chelsea Cain
Se había equivocado? Era terriblemente histérica, pero con rara manifestación desbordante; los nervios desordenados repiqueteaban hacia adentro, y de aquí la súbita tenacidad en un disparate, el brusco abandono de una convicción; y en los prodromos de las crisis, la obstinación creciente, convulsiva, edificándose a grandes bloques de absurdos. Abusaba de la morfina, por angustiosa necesidad y por elegancia.
~ Horacio Quiroga
Chier, parce que tout partait de travers. L'éclairage, la bande-son, l'action.
~ Hugh Laurie
Governmental disorder and 'cumulative radicalization' were two sides of the same coin.
~ Ian Kershaw
Hitler's unmethodical, even casual, approach to the flood of often serious matters of government brought to his attention was a guarantee of administrative disorder. 'He disliked reading files,' recalled Wiedemann. 'I got decisions out of him, even on very important matters, without him ever asking me for the relevant papers. He took the view that many things sorted themselves out if they were left alone.
~ Ian Kershaw
Chaos is another name for opportunity
~ I-Ching