Function Quotes

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Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let… — George W. Bush
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it.… — Dean Koontz
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, â€œare not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the… — Jorge Luis Borges
Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that… — Milton Friedman
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are… — Aldous Huxley
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never… — Michael Crichton
They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific… — Michael Crichton
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people,… — Don DeLillo
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the… — Joseph Campbell
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with… — Louis de Bernieres
Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the… — Philip K. Dick
When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are… — Naomi Klein
Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there… — Alex Shakar
Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your… — Ellen Hopkins
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. — Kim Stanley Robinson
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid,… — J. G. Ballard
Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at… — Mary Doria Russell
The function of freedom is to free someone else. — Toni Morrison
Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes. — Simon R. Green
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will… — Bell Hooks

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