Quotes About Function

If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

The poet found illness a convenient language for his skewed relation to normal life, for his inability at times to function, for his radical abdication of responsibilities. Illness offered, for decades, a comfortable way for him to think about himself. Ever the poet, he pretty much set up camp and lived in the metaphor of being sick.

Like so many parties, this one was work for a lot of the guests.

I've heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards - how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he'll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he's out of place; how society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

When we reject improper things on the negative side and exercise our will to receive spiritual inspiration by faith on the positive side, we will spontaneously be able to function in the meeting. However, there is much to consider concerning how to function in a proper way so that the meeting can be supplied. Generally speaking, the activities in a meeting do not include more than three items—selecting hymns, praying, and speaking. Let us briefly consider these three items. Selecting

The law of God has a function in our nature. In other words, our nature corresponds to God's law because our nature was made by God. God's law was given according to God's nature, for a lawgiver always enacts a law in accordance with his own being. God created man according to what He is. Therefore, the law given by God and the man created by God correspond to one another.

A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything and is, therefore, a particularly compelling symbol of civilisation. (Attributed to Ralph Caplan)

Hayekian democracy serves the function of making a capitalist market society appear to be 'the people's choice' even though it has long been removed from democratic control.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

Your system is perfectly designed to give you the results you're getting.

No es coincidencia que la gente obesa tenga más riesgo de padecer impedimentos en la función cerebral, y que quienes tienen diabetes sean doblemente propensos a desarrollar Alzheimer.

statins may lessen brain function and increase risk for heart disease. The reason is simple: The brain needs cholesterol

And now we have the evidence in the scientific literature to prove that when cholesterol levels are low, the brain simply doesn't work well; individuals with low cholesterol are at much greater risk for dementia and other neurological problems.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. —THOMAS A. EDISON

But a caveat: Once free radicals damage the LDL molecule, it's rendered much less capable of delivering cholesterol to the brain. In addition to oxidation destroying the LDL's function, sugar can also render it dysfunctional by binding to it and accelerating oxidation. And when that happens, LDL is no longer able to enter the astrocyte, a cell charged with nourishing neurons. In