Disorder Quotations | Page 2

If you deny the delusion, you only make it worse; you compel the delusional individual to strive to prove you wrong. Elevating someone with delusional disorder first and then cutting them down is a recipe for exacerbating the delusion, absolutely.

Instead of being fired, perhaps he should be studied and examined, much as one might probe the victim of a once-rare psychiatric disorder that has become rampant. Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

Instead, the disorder itself takes control and the chemical changes in the body affect the brain and distort thinking. It becomes almost impossible for sufferers to make rational decisions about food.

In these days of international commerce and travel, an infectious disorder that appears in one part of the world can quickly become a problem continents away if the disease-causing agent, or pathogen, finds itself in a hospitable environment.

I didn't know much about my disorder when I started two years ago. I had been hospitalized a couple times, and then my CMO put me in touch with the group.

The only thing wrong with me was that I was a weirdo that hated school. I'm sure now there'd be a disorder for it, but I was just an oddball.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

The present order is the disorder of the future.

I am not aware of any other complex disorder where nearly 75 percent of genetic causality has been identified.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

This is a long-term fight to ensure the hooligans, thugs and criminals who want to create trouble and disorder will not win.

The idea is that where disorder occurs ... that sends the message that this area is not being monitored.

The child is to the pedophile as the bottle is to the alcoholic. This is often being treated for a cure rather than as a chronic disorder that needs follow up.

The challenges to policing have never been so varied, ranging from international terrorism, the serious disorder currently so graphically displayed in my world, through to community policing.

The disorder got in my mind and said, you know, things like 'If she hangs up the phone one more time, I'm going to break something,' ... and so, to me, it all seemed perfectly logical.

The looks of the disorder are different across age and gender.

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.

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

Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -

And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

The order I found was the order of disorder

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

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

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.

In the denial of disorder there is order.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Love is a severe mental disorder.

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Nothing like a little post-traumatic stress disorder to make your day complete.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.