Quotes About Dysfunction

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

Liver dysfunction can run in families, like the iron-overload disease hemochromatosis. It can be caused by infections that can lead to liver cancer, or it can stem from drugs—most often inadvertent or intentional overdoses of Tylenol.4 The most common causes, however, are drink and food: alcoholic liver disease and fatty liver disease.

If they had a pill that would fix every dysfunctional family in the world, don't you think they'd be selling it?" "I don't think the world is ready for that kind of happiness.

Whether it is overbearing parents, rebellious children, or an unfaithful spouse, God has the ability to transform our brokenness and use it to further his purposes. He also has a habit of using our dysfunction to deepen our devotion to him.

Trump needed to surround himself with the dysfunctional and the inept, because he was dysfunctional and inept.

There was, curiously, general agreement in the West Wing that Donald Trump, the media president, had one of the most dysfunctional communication operations in modern White House history.

It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot (Trump) surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything - not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.

We stop living the life that He planned for us, and we start living out of dysfunction instead.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. Mary Karr, The Liar's Club

In the heyday of its material splendor, our society is suffering from an astonishing variety of strange ills.

Why would I want to share anything with a man who yells at me twenty-three hours of every day, then kisses me?

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years (a sunk cost if ever there was one), people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. — Marshall Goldsmith

Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves

One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function.

Yet the message of the garden of Eden is that sin makes us quest for God's position. We want life to work according to our will and conform to our plan. This desire to be at the center never goes anywhere good, personally or relationally. Self-centeredness is at the core of sin's dysfunction, another powerful evidence of our need for rescuing grace.

These may be good people, but now I realize they work in a broken system

No shoes, no matter what the price or the brand, will cure foot problems. At best (and worst), they camouflage the dysfunction. A hidden problem only gets worse over time.

Sibling rivalry is further reinforced in dysfunctional families by the fact that all the children are subsisting on minimal nurturance, and are therefore without resources to give to each other. Moreover, competition for the little their parents have to give creates even fiercer rivalries.

My parents' twisted version of this boiled down to: "As f*cked up as we are, we're still way better than you".

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She's so lucky.