Function Quotes
1769 quotes by 1322 authors
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I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my…
— Sophie Kinsella
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I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
— George Washington
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Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is…
— Jan Gehl
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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
— Dick Cavett
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What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good…
— Ken Buck
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Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
— John Carmack
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The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing…
— Ellen Ullman
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Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.
— Ralph Lauren
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Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange…
— Robert Musil
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Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into the relationship between…
— Rudolph Ballentine
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Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp…
— Huineng
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I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives…
— Mike Lookinland
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Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death,…
— Bill Berry
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Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look…
— Bob Torres
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There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence…
— Mark Gevisser
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The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
— Daniel J. Bernstein
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The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility…
— H. L. Mencken
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There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a…
— H. L. Mencken
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Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down.…
— E. M. Forster
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In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion.…
— William Arthur Ward
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