Quotes About Dysfunction

Her arms and legs were incapable of working in unison toward a single goal, they couldn't all follow the same directions at once. Sasha pressed Sonia's arms and legs together and called her name a few times, as though the name could bring harmony to her limbs.

If I do not destroy the "family," the "family" will destroy me. —R. D. Laing

men who have erectile dysfunction are at much higher risk of having heart disease, memory loss, dementia, or stroke as their arteries are often clogged throughout their body.

Having a stepmother as serenely unflappable as Lady Tiverton could not have helped matters, and her father was wholly insensitive.

The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over.

When it comes to dysfunctional families," he said,"I'll put mine up against anyone's, anytime

The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.

The whole world is one big dysfunctional family. But no matter how dysfunctional we are, we can still have a positive impact on each other's lives. We can still try to get along together.

Mary Trump's 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man' tells a remarkable story, the broad strokes of which many already knew. Mary Trump offers a tale of what she calls 'malignant' family dysfunction, and how it produced a malignantly dysfunctional president.

Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently.

World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up.

No. . .I mean, I'm sorry he. . .You know, said those things to you." "It's part of being a 'good' family. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

Any human organization can be rendered useless, impotent, a danger to itself, by selectively removing its best minds while carefully leaving the stupid ones in place.

The results are astonishing. Over 70 percent of all dysfunctioning couples – where one or both have not had an orgasm in years – often achieve climax within two weeks after starting this Tantric program. The explanation, according to Dr. Masters, is that anxiety about orgasm is the principal cause of failure, and once the anxiety is removed, the natural happens by itself, spontaneously – tsu-jan, "of its own nature," as a Taoist would say.

Families in crisis have wrongly been labeled dysfunctional families. Families are not the problem—they are the opportunity. When we understand ourselves as the opportunity, we see our world with a new vision. We dare to hope for our dreams to materialize. We imagine once again what it will be like to be happy.

I wondered that day if I was the only one in the room who knew that there was something terribly wrong with our mother.

If there's one thing the Hawthorne family isn't it's fine. They were a twisted, broken mess before you got here, and they'll be a twisted, broken mess once you're gone.

Ce sera toujours un pays de factions, de désordre, de passe-droits, de népotisme, de corruption. Mais c'est aussi le pays de la douceur de vivre, de la chaleur humaine, de la générosité. Et de tes amis les plus vrais.

Immigrants and refugees who have escaped the corrupt, dysfunctional, crime-ridden, socialist and communist regimes of Latin America are precisely the kind of hard-working and grateful people we should be welcoming to the U.S.

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control.

My father is a despicable man.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.