Function Quotes

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.

The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.