Disorder Quotes · Page 15

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my…

— Richard Ford

I think if we really break it down and talk about post-traumatic stress disorder, it's very different than the way Sarah Palin…

— Jon Soltz

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

— Jeremy Miller

I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

— Chris Hayes

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of…

— P. D. James

A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction;

— Robert Herrick

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things…

— Edward Hirsch

There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized…

— George Will

The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominantly dietary. Although several factors play into the genesis and progression of brain…

— David Perlmutter

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw…

— Michel de Montaigne

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced…

— John Wesley

Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all…

— Temple Grandin

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction…

— Dana Spiotta

And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the…

— Karl Marlantes

“From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder                Thales sipped cheap wine                And in this did divine: “Why it’s…

— Rebecca Goldstein

So it seems that because of every syndrome and disorder we've invented in the past twenty years, the Los Angeles Times reported…

— Christopher Titus

“Sometimes the working memory impairments of ADHD allow a momentary emotion to become too strong; the person is flooded with one emotion…

— Thomas E. Brown

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their…

— Amy Chua

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,…

— Daniel Berrigan

“It is now recognised that dissociation is a way of forgetting, for a time. The mind siphons off the bad memories into…

— Carolyn Bramhall

“Medication is the most efficient way to jump-start treatment, but it does not effectively treat ADHD in marriages without the addition of…

— Melissa Orlov

Mistrust is the fuel for so much mental pain, so many mental disorders. I am not talking here about the suspicions we…

— Lauren Slater

“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They…

— Suzette Boon

Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music.

— Bob Hope

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

— Robin Tunney

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

— Farrah Fawcett

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins...and sometimes I'll just eat the…

— Janeane Garofalo

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for…

— Pierre Bayle

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had…

— Ellen Forney

Her [Sarah Palin] son went to Iraq under George W. Bush, but it gives us a chance to explain what post-traumatic stress…

— Jon Soltz

Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.

— M. Scott Peck

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to…

— Richard J. Daley

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

— Rae Smith

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

— Sun Tzu

Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the…

— Ike Skelton