Functions Quotes

475 quotes by 414 authors

If I had bodily functions, I think I would have peed my pants. — Gena Showalter
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
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way,… — D. H. Lawrence
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you… — Bryce Courtenay
Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love. — E. M. Forster
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest… — Gail Carriger
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. — Thomas Merton
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he… — John Steinbeck
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from… — Milton Friedman
We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations… — Dan Ariely
Thatâ€™s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions. — Cassandra Clare
i never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep… — Charles Bukowski
The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the… — Joseph Murphy
Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions, how it overpowers… — Rajneesh
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as… — Gustave Eiffel
Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage… — Jim Speros
Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation. — Peter Drucker
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by… — Alice Duer Miller
We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the… — Rajneesh
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded… — Mark Twain

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