The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“If I were a function, you would be my asymptote. I always tend toward you.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil:… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I find it gross to talk about bodily functions like shitting or farting or your period, if you're a girl, unless it's… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level… — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think the personal and psychological aspects of war remain the same. War is about killing and dying. A man or woman… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to… — David Galula Copy Share Image
There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction,… — Adrian Wilson Copy Share Image
after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image