Derange Quotes

#1. If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

Charles Fort

#3. Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.

John C. Calhoun

#4. Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

Hippocrates

#5. The power of grief to derange the mind has in fact been exhaustively noted.

Joan Didion

#6. Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

Sam Harris

#7. Grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

George R R Martin

#8. Knowing why you can't will tell you why you can.

Rodney "Q" Phillips

#9. It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.

Pawan Mishra

#10. Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.

Clifford D. Simak

#11. The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.

Richard Lamm

#12. But before Christianity was a rich and powerful religion, before it was associated with buildings, budgets, crusades, colonialism, or televangelism, it began as a revolutionary nonviolent movement promoting a new kind of aliveness on the margins of society.

Brian D. McLaren

#13. Who's out there?" I say.
"Just teenagers," my father says.
"Why are they like that?"
"That's just the way they are."
"Will I be like that when I grow up?"
"You? Perish the thought.

Joshua Gaylord