Disordered Quotes

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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part. — George Washington
Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and… — Neil Patrick Harris
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any… — Thomas Paine
The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener… — Samuel Johnson
Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders,… — Susan Bordo
Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am… — Nathanael West
The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth,… — Malaclypse the Younger
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple. — Donald M. MacKinnon
To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul. — Leonardo da Vinci
Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light. — Charles Wesley
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits… — Edward Dahlberg
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart. — John Ortberg
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in… — Thomas Sydenham
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility… — Isaiah Berlin
Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;â€” These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient… — Heinrich Heine
Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely. — Timothy Keller
The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. — Stephen Hawking

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