The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I'm always playing a role, whether it's the role of the mayor, the role of a news anchor, or a role of… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new… — William James Copy Share Image
By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate… — Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits Copy Share Image
Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio.… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have… — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some… — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image