Pastoral Resources

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

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.'

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

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.

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

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.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

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.

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.