Quotes About Dysfunction

Donald began to realize that there was nothing he could do wrong, so he stopped trying to do anything 'right.' He became bolder and more aggressive because he was rarely challenged or held to account by the only person in the world who mattered - his father.

I talk all the time about how much I read growing up and how much I love Stephen King and how he impacted my work from a genre perspective, but Pat Conroy wrote some of the most magnificent stories about characters who had to deal with dysfunctional families and try to find a place of honor in their own world and the pain of loss.

The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.

Persons of Aunt Ada's temperament were not fond of a tidy life. Storms were what they liked; plenty of rows, and doors being slammed, and jaws sticking out, and faces white with fury, and faces brooding in corners, and faces making unnecessary fuss at breakfast, and plenty of opportunities for gorgeous emotional wallowings, and partings for ever, and misunderstandings, and interferings, and spyings, and, above all, managing and intriguing. Oh, they did enjoy themselves!

When you avoid talking about one conspicuous thing in a family, soon you stop talking about any conspicuous things in the family. It's like a form of rot.

It was like a broken slot machine in the casino that pays off every time. It would keep paying off until someone said something about it; but no one who played the slot machine had any interest in pointing out that it was broken.

BAFU. Billions and All Fucked Up.

even in success Markovich witnessed the dysfunction of American government.

My father never liked me or my sister, and he never liked our mother either, after an initial infatuation, and in fact, he never liked anyone at all after an hour or two, no, no one except a stooge.

Hell would freeze over before I saw my parents happily holding hands and ice skating.

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

Trump is the perfect foil," he summarized. "He's the bad father, the terrible first husband, the boyfriend that fucked you over and wasted all those years, and [you] gave up your youth for, and then dumped you. And the terrible boss that grabbed you by the pussy all the time and demeaned you.

Sure. You two are whack jobs separately. Together, you're a goddamn nut house.

You guys are whackjobs separately. Together, you're a Goddamn nuthouse.

The current dysfunction and decay of the American political system is

Dysfunction in Washington has stalled any meaningful federal action on gun control. So it's increasingly up to big cities like New York to take bold steps to get weapons off our streets and change the national discourse.

Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma.

I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience.

You mean the guy puking his guts out in your bathroom … the same guy who woke the building up this morning with a blood-curdling scream? The one with no job whose evil former sister-in-law recently dedicated her life to making the rest of his life miserable?

My siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant, my family broke apart slowly.

I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

I love books about dysfunctional families.

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.