Function Quotes

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Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy.… — Karen Armstrong
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would… — Haruki Murakami
Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession… — J. G. Ballard
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in… — Paul Auster
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If I had bodily functions, I think I would have peed my pants. — Gena Showalter
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our… — Daniel Pinchbeck
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies. — Stephen King
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what Iâ€™m doing is judging natural events in such… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck? — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because… — David Rakoff
Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of… — Orson Scott Card
Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever. — W. Bruce Cameron
You can drive.â€ When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital… — Nalini Singh
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said,… — Kurt Vonnegut
An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything… — Tove Jansson
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when… — Max Brooks
How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate? — Beatrice Sparks
The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal… — Ayn Rand
I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind. — Dave Eggers

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