When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize… — Maurice Blondel Copy Share Image
India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, but actually, the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions,… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself,… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function;… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in… — John Kao Copy Share Image
A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately,… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. — Robert Brustein Copy Share Image
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening.… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
