Disorder Quotes - page 3

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation. (Gerard De Nerval)
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. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder. View quote
Lena Dunham
The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. View quote
Louis de Bernieres
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. View quote
Nicolas Steno
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder. View quote
Flann O'Brien
My dear friends, colleagues, and fans, my physicians have recently told me I may have a neurological disorder whose symptoms are consistent with Alzheimer's disease. So I wanted to prepare a few words for you now because when the time comes, I may not be able to. View quote
Charlton Heston
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' View quote
A. R. Ammons
I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder. View quote
Brittany Snow
My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach. View quote
David Brainerd
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional. (Dana Spiotta)
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. View quote
Ike Skelton
I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me. View quote
Jeremy Miller
Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder. View quote
Jok Church
Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims. View quote
Leeza Gibbons
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. View quote
Maurice Wilkins
I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2? View quote
Ned Beatty
I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy. View quote
Nicole Polizzi
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. View quote
Pete Earley
The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better. View quote
Ricky Williams
However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems. (Robert Huber)
You don't have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful. View quote
Scarlett Pomers
Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior. View quote
Tim Howard
I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood. View quote
Tori Spelling
As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder. View quote
Thomas R. Insel