For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw… — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve… — David Connolly Copy Share Image
You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the… — Wally Amos Copy Share Image
I've been lucky to always have a healthy relationship with food. I also love to be consistent with meditation and make sure… — Cara Santana Copy Share Image
In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms, — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and… — Will Burtin Copy Share Image
The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image