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Tag Name "Disorder" (412)

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Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar in an antiquary's study, not the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.
John Ruskin
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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
Tom Robbins
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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.
Tom Robbins
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No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.
Stafford Cripps
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Just remembering that they [people with eating disorder] are young, beautiful and unique and that is worth everything in this world.
Troian Bellisario
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The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.
Steven Pinker
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
Umberto Eco
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I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.
Sue Monk Kidd
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Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
Vanessa Carlton
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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.
Sun Tzu
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
Vita Sackville-West
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Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.
Sun Tzu
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A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
Wallace Stevens
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Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.
Susan Bordo
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
Walter Raleigh
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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 -
Susan Sontag
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I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.
Whitney Thompson
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Autism is an extremely variable disorder.
Temple Grandin
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I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
Wilkie Collins
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
Tennessee Williams
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The order I found was the order of disorder
William Saroyan
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