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Quotes About Disorder

happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type.
~ Lori Gottlieb
is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Fright being, in its way, as communicable a disorder as leprosy, I soon felt my own heart pound, my own limbs stiffen
~ Louis Bayard
Rules meant order. Without them they'd be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.
~ Louise Penny
The withdrawal in Afghanistan looked like a ferret fire drill!
~ Unknown
the fundamental task that was originally that of Zeus: to struggle against the ceaselessly regrouping forces of chaos so that order may prevail over disorder, cosmos and concord over discord.
~ Unknown
A Columbia University study identified fifteen hundred children who had been assessed and diagnosed with ADHD. Within two years, over 50 percent of the children had lost their diagnosis. In other words, the severity of their symptoms no longer met the criteria for this disorder.
~ Unknown
Production is "anarchistic.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Perhaps Effie Mumford was only trying to prove something she already knew: that, like all animals, she was at the whim of the general disorder and unimaginative meanness of the world surrounding her.
~ Joe Meno
Diabetes is a food-created disorder, and the right food choices can rid you of this life-shortening disease and its associated medical complications.
~ Joel Fuhrman
Chaos is nothing but an infinite number of ordered things.
~ John Banville
What the mess
~ John Barker
The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Living in lawlessness gives you lawlessness.
~ Vikram Bhatt
In every war, there's looting.
~ Cate Blanchett
Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I don't know, Your Majesty. He's a mess.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Myself, I've always been organized in waves. For months on end, slowly descending into disorder, I drift with the status quo. Then I wake up one morning with a sudden compulsion to color-code my socks or stack them vertically.
~ Diane Ackerman
After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more sorrowful than a brain whose proper function has been disrupted?
~ Diane Setterfield
rare, and as the household descended from eccentricity into chaos
~ Diane Setterfield
I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.
~ Don DeLillo
The present goal of the individual in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.
~ Donald Barthelme
disordered clumps, wrongly beautiful, like a scan of a damaged brain
~ Unknown
I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty