Function Quotes · Page 23

I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of…

— Thomas Boswell

And other people get the opportunity to leave prison, and then they do something to get put back in there because they…

— Laura Prepon

While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is…

— Wong Kiew Kit

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

— Robert Penn Warren

You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because…

— Simon Romero

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors.…

— Irwin Redlener

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

— Lindsay Wagner

I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software…

— Anonymous

Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than…

— Paula Scher

Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to…

— Peter Stillman

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more…

— Ronald Reagan

Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always…

— Raymond Chandler

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

— Daniel D. Palmer

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

— Hal Boyle

It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are…

— Hillary Clinton

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really…

— Timothy Leary

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of…

— H. L. Mencken

According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal…

— John Dye

The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of…

— Charles Colson

Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but…

— Aristotle

I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But…

— John K. Samson

“Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers…

— Israelmore Ayivor

No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care…

— Michael Servetus

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…

— Stanley Kubrick

A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if…

— Gerald Asher

In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis,…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The question is are you loyal to the agenda that [Donald] Trump, that President-elect Trump has put forward in terms of his…

— Kellyanne Conway

It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but…

— Tom Robbins

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect…

— Alice Miller

Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.

— Michael Light

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

— Jonathan Ive

We're living in the anthropocene age and now human beings will be the shapers of our future, that totally control the overall…

— Vandana Shiva

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of…

— Camille Paglia

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

— Edward Albee

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

— George Santayana

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

— Jack Vance

If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the…

— Wayne Dyer

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

— Ludwig von Mises

We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems…

— Lewis Thomas