Dysfunction Quotes · Page 2

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

— Hillary Clinton

“He has a reptile dysfunction.”

— Jodi Picoult

“One needn't stop dysfunction; just evince and reflect.”

— Andy Harglesis

I hate that word dysfunction.

— Jonathan Franzen

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

— Robert Downey, Jr

“Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

Marriage is designed to pull dysfunction to the surface of our lives, set it on fire and help us grow.

— Tyler Ward

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

— Justin Torres

“Children develop dysfunction when their development is disrupted.”

— Gunda Frey

The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power.

— Caroline Myss

“My family may be dysfunctional, but I think it’s pretty functional in its dysfunction.”

— Amanda Torrey

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

— Eli Attie

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always…

— Meredith Brooks

Pressure all around me Is this who Im supposed to be? Sick and tired of fittin the mold! Dysfunction is the cycle…

— Anonymous

Bob Dole is going to be appearing in a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears. Yeah, apparently Dole says that if this doesn't…

— Conan O'Brien

Everything about the Kardashian family's public image centers around shock and dysfunction - the very image the trans people are trying to…

— Zoey Tur

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

— Marshall Goldsmith

“Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face…

— Stefan Molyneux

“... I slipped our wicker bed and walked the sands where we were also roughly repeated: some young couple, "you did," "I…

— Albert Goldbarth

“Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

I've said that we're going to produce real results for the American people because so many Americans feel left out and left…

— Hillary Clinton

I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get…

— John Kasich

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate…

— Henry Louis Gates

The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell…

— Eckhart Tolle

People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the…

— Eckhart Tolle

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes…

— Melissa Gilbert

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world…

— Ralph Fiennes

“If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at…

— Donna K. Childree

“Reading Chip's college orientation materials, Alfred had been struck by the sentence New England winters can be very cold. The curtains he'd…

— Jonathan Franzen

“The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“They'd been playing house, but it wasn't a game either of them liked.”

— Melanie Golding

“Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.”

— Randy Elrod

Acting came from growing up in dysfunction. I mean, a lot of great times, but a lot of dysfunction.

— Viola Davis

I was born an emotional tampon in a cauldron of dysfunction.

— Dana Gould

There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

— Laura Miller

You can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a wonderful…

— Anonymous

“Most intelligent men and women like to go forth into the world and stalk their own prey, choose their own mirrors of…

— Laurie Viera Rigler

Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder…

— Margaret Heffernan