Function Quotes · Page 112

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

— Joseph Campbell

I met Glenn [ Greenwald] briefly in 2009. We were both guests on Real Time With Bill Maher. I was the show's…

— Zachary Quinto

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her…

— Robert Graves

The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes…

— Thomas DiLorenzo

The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better…

— Cal Thomas

As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product.…

— Marcus Buckingham

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements,…

— William Shakespeare

The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately…

— Richard Owen

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an…

— Eric Drooker

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

— John Dewey

I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the…

— Niall Ferguson

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it.…

— Chogyam Trungpa

We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We…

— Ronald Reagan

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of…

— Jane Addams

One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls…

— Krafft Arnold Ehricke

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best…

— Norman Mailer

In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will…

— Malcolm X

The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

London's night economy is huge and it couldn't function without London's night buses.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had…

— Paul Klee

But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an…

— Rajneesh

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

— Dick Cavett

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in…

— Eleanor Roosevelt