Function Quotes

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Form follows function.

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.