Disorder Quotes - Page 15

• It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Night, Men

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• We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

  Nick Harkaway

  Media, Cities, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

  Andrew Tudor

  Sleep, Psychosis, Mad

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• If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Confused, Order, Confusion

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.440, GENERAL PRESS

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• Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.

  Ben Marcus

  World, Information, Unstable

  "This week in fiction: Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.

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• I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!

  Roseanne Barr

  People, Eating Disorder, Trying

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.

  Julie Delpy

  Reality, Thinking

  "Julie Delpy's Entropic Vacation". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Russia, Numbers

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• Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

  Robert Lanza

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Disease

  "Company behind the clones: Advanced Cell Technology" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 25, 2001.

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• The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Real, Order

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• From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Aspergers, Syndromes

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• God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Men, Mind, Instinct

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• It's uncommon, but there are some people who just have a delayed circadian rhythm and they just - they sleep better during the day then they do at night. So they've - a lot of those people with delayed sleep phase disorder they start to work in bars, they work some of the late night shifts, they sort of adjust to doing it more and more as time goes on.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There are some that are - REM Behavior Disorder, we'll see some court documented cases. And they really need to have a thorough evaluation with a sleep specialist.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Needs, Evaluation

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Narcolepsy is a disorder that affects many different areas of life. So in typical patients with narcolepsy, they have something called "excessive daytime sleepiness." So, they're very sleepy during the day. Yet, at night, they're still sleepy, but their sleep is very broken.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, Broken

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, America, Risk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.

  Rae Smith

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, World

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• There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.

  George Will

  Order, Space, Needs

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• In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world.

  Andrew Weil

  People, Modern Life, World

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• I think if you play characters, it's very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.

  Cillian Murphy

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

  Edward Norton

  Voice, Obsessive Compulsive, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is.

  Walter Mosley

  Falling In Love, Adventure, Fighting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

  Michael Savage

  Philosophy, Political, Liberalism

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• Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something? I go on a big crusade about it and write a bunch of books on the subject. No, wait, that sounds more like what someone with a mental disorder would do. That's one of the crazy things about lots of atheists: They're whole movement is supposed to be about being logical and reasonable, yet they tend to rail against religion is a very mindless way that doesn't seem to serve any more purpose than a tantrum. Perhaps I just don't understand their strong faith in not having faith.

  Frank J. Fleming

  Strong, Atheist, Crazy

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• Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Pain, Emotional, Knowing

  Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.5, McGraw Hill Professional

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