Functioning Quotes

241 quotes by 207 authors

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I had all the characteristics of a human beingâ€”flesh, blood, skin, hairâ€”but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability… — Bret Easton Ellis
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than… — Herbert Marcuse
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you -… — Rajneesh
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages — Elias Canetti
[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can… — Paul Tillich
I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I… — P.G. Wodehouse
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching… — Richard Brautigan
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that… — Gloria Steinem
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational… — Peter Straub
I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research. — Arthur Conan Doyle
As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning… — John Green
Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells. — John Green
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. — Sarah Dessen
The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed… — Tara Brach
I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings,… — Dean Koontz
I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming… — Donald Miller
Itâ€™s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming â€“ make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on… — Betty White
Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult — Art Spiegelman
That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on. — Karen Marie Moning

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