Quotes About Disorderly

#1. Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in, to give it at least the semblance of order. Only when she wrote was she unafraid.

John Irving

#2. Some came to help satisfy the various lusts of what Mark Twain called "a wild, free, disorderly, grotesque society! Men - only swarming hosts of stalwart men - nothing juvenile, nothing feminine visible anywhere.

Tom Cole

#3. Sleeping in a bed
it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

Rose Macaulay

#4. To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

Thomas A Kempis

#5. The bells were ringing again, high in the scudding sunlight in bright disorderly tatters of sound.

William Faulkner

#6. The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the staccato of hoofs.

H.G.Wells

#7. Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation ... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

Leonard Woolf

#8. A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

Benjamin Whichcote

#9. For us all, the world is disorderly and dangerous; ungoverned, and apparently ungovernable. The questions arise: Who will restore order? Who can counter the danger of nuclear holocaust? Who alone can govern the world? The only answer is Jesus Christ!

Billy Graham

#10. The utopian, immanent, and continually frustrated goal of the modern state is to reduce the chaotic, disorderly, constantly changing social reality beneath it to something more closely resembling the administrative grid of its observations.

James C. Scott

#11. Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes, but this is not the worst of it. Wyman's slum of possibles is a breeding ground for disorderly elements.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#12. Sir 7:17 Number not thyself among the multitude of the disorderly.

Various

#13. At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.

Sune Rose Wagner

#15. Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.

Michel De Montaigne

#16. Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Aldous Huxley

#17. A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

Fred W. Friendly

#18. A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

Publilius Syrus

#19. An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. What the disorderly crave above everything is order, what the dislocated aspire to is location.

Wallace Stegner

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

George Herbert

#22. Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.

Tullian Tchividjian

#23. At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly.

Peter Mountford

#24. For the first time Topper's established routine of living gave place to a disorderly desire to live.

Thorne Smith

#25. All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly ...

Frances Trollope

#26. I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

J.I. Packer

#27. We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion.

Geoffrey Wood

#28. Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Bruce Cockburn

#29. No longer does human life rise from the earth like a pyramid, broadly and considerately founded upon its own sources. Now it scatters itself out in a reckless horizontal sprawl, like a disorderly city whose suburbs and pavements destroy the fields.

Wendell Berry

#30. disorderly experience we should have if our senses were susceptible to the impact of a few molecules only.

Erwin Schrodinger

#31. 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

#32. The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand

R. Buckminster Fuller

#33. Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.

Luigi Cornaro

#34. One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

A.A. Milne

#35. I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream. So there is some compulsion involved. But the dividend I get is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

George Carlin

#36. A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

Asger Jorn

#37. The universe gets more disorderly all the time.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#38. The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.

Lee Kuan Yew

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

Joan Halifax

#40. It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#41. We believe that people should wait their time, and people should be able to be accepted here - over a million a year - in an orderly process, not a disorderly process, and that we should not be rewarding those who violate the law, and making even harder for those who try to comply with the law.

Jeff Sessions

#42. And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#43. After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.

James Boswell

#44. He had a taste for wild, spreading, disorderly things: high mountains,aged oaks,and Aliena's hair.

Ken Follett

#45. Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

#46. Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

Quintilian

#47. People want order, this kind or some other. They sit in the prison of their hungers and see that war has become the sport of the rich. That's a dangerous form of sophistication. It's disorderly.

Frank Herbert

#48. People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.

Davy Jones

#49. A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

George Ade

#50. A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

Socrates

#51. God refuses no one the gift of prayer. By it we obtain the help that we need to overcome disorderly desires and temptations of all kinds. - ST. ALPHONSUS. 17

Various

#52. He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.

Martin Luther

#53. Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

Doug Larson

#54. Maybe comfort exists in believing there is order in the world, even when someone is making the most disorderly decision we know: running toward death instead of away from it.

In their absence, we're left trying to pin meaning to air.

Kate Fagan

#55. Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Gilles Deleuze