Function Quotes
The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.
If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.
Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.
The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.
I never needed much sleep. But I've always said that is a function of do you enjoy life.
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.
My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.
People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love.
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.
In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.
But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?
A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.
Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.
Its 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 thats what matters.
If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.
Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.