Quotes About Dysfunction

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

What the hell kind of family did I marry into?

The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations.

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline.

I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

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There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

We may wonder how the ability to profit from land fosters social dysfunction, but once we realize the extent to which community wealth is privatized for personal gain, we also come to realize just how corrupt most societies actually are. Many social problems exist as a result of how our system misallocates wealth, not as a result of an unalterable human condition.

Laurie was just one more dropped stitch in a family tapestry already full of holes.

When you try to measure performance, particularly the performance of knowledge workers, you're positively courting dysfunction.

My mother insulted me, I insulted her, Jeanne, the stepgrandmother, insulted everything in a skirt, and my grandfather just kept right on drinking. We picked at our food, competing for who could eat the least. When

This time all the Incorrigibles chimed in. "Nevermore!" they cried. Somehow a turnip found its way from Cassiopeia's plate to Alexander's. Penelope tried to kick a warning under the table, but her foot hit the admiral's cane instead and gave a nasty stub to her toe.

We have come to take the dysfunctional aspect of ourselves for granted without realizing that it is possible to free ourselves from the vicious circle that is exhausting us.