Technology has deprived the family of almost all its…

The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.

— Susan Minot

I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

— Taraji P. Henson

The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all.…

— Susan Minot

Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can…

— Niall Williams

Singing was something I only did at family functions, but I never took it seriously.

— Anthony Ramos

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't…

— Michael Schultz

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.

— Anonymous

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the…

— Anais Nin

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine…

— Woodrow Wilson

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an…

— Jimmy Carter

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

— Mason Cooley

It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without…

— Frederick Seitz

There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob…

— Tom Robbins