Function Quotes

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Receiving and giving are opposite energies that are inextricably linked together in the natural flow of life, like inhaling and exhaling. If one aspect of… — Shakti Gawain
Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge… — Marianne Williamson
The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function. — Rudolph Ballentine
... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder. — Mahatma Gandhi
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is… — Henry David Thoreau
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be… — E. M. Forster
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. — Mignon McLaughlin
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every… — Laura Chinchilla
The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayersâ€™ money. It is that many… — David Boaz
For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about our… — Robert D. Hare
A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I… — Bill Watterson
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in… — John F. Kennedy
The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are… — John F. Kennedy
We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself,… — Michel de Montaigne
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as… — Judith Viorst
Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines… — Dave Barry
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair

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