Disorder Quotes - Page 22

• You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions with crazy. Frankly, I think women who don't have major emotional disorders are really very dull.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Crazy, Emotional, Thinking

  MaryJanice Davidson (2010). “Me, Myself and Why?”, p.125, St. Martin's Press

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• Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

  Sun Tzu

  Crush, Art, War

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Spring, War

  "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book V, chapter 1, 1526.

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• THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY

  Sarah Newton

  Educational, Parent, Tests

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• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Summer, Falling In Love, Fun

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Light, Discovery

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• Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Order, Weakness

  "The Art of War".

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• We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.

  Nicolas Steno

  Ignorance, Views, Numbers

  "Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries". Book by S. Finger, 2000.

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• Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.

  Barbara Oakley

  Voice, Numbers, Personality

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• Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.

  Charles W. Socarides

  Gay, Purple, Design

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• A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

  Jean Cocteau

  Travel, Car, Massage

  "Opium: The Diary of His Cure". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1930.

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• I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.

  Jerry Falwell

  God, Night, Voice

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• Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

  Demi Lovato

  Lifestyle Choices, Eating Disorder, Serious

  Twitter post from Mar 2, 2012

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• There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

  Amy Chua

  Psychological Disorders, Asia, West

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.

  Jack London

  Fashion, Men, Hunting

  Jack London (2012). “White Fang”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he changed his mind.I called him a player with attention deficit disorder.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Girl, Flirting, Player

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and everyone tells you you're very dramatic, very intense, and they see it as an affectation, but it´s actually just how you think. It really seems to you that the sky will fall if you are not personally holding it up. On the one hand, this is sheer arrogance; on the other hand, this is a very real fear. And it isn't that you ignore the potential repercussions of your actions. You don't think there are any. Because you are not even there.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

  Darren Shan

  Worry, Severe

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• Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Anorexia, Healthy

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin

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• optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Fall, Adversity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

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• Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Food, People, Eating Disorder

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• Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Adrenal Glands, Recipes, Evolution

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Self, Gender

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• Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

  Oliver Pell

  Reality, Psychological Disorders, Optimism

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• Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Tongue, Curb

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.154, University of Georgia Press

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