Quotes About Function

And the applause functions, then, in part, to pacify, narcotize, the resulting violent and inescapable discomfort.

Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colors employed in painting.

The method by which Nature proceeds is invariable. First she watches over the conservation of the individualities she has called out, then she takes care of the species to which they belong, and lastly, she assigns to all their places and their functions in the scale of creatures. Thus, she introduces into the world duration, stability, and unity.

The life of the animal is more complete than that of the vegetable, for it intervenes more spontaneously and more efficaciously in the double function of self-protection and continuance of the species.

We have seen that unions perform their natural function when three conditions are observed: association with the union is voluntary; the union confines its activities to collective bargaining; the bargaining is conducted with the employer of the workers concerned.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

Do you know what kills me? The cropped hats. The beanies that are rolled up past your ears, in the summer as well! There's no function to it.

I want to have fun. Big Hollywood films can be fun, but you know it's an industry, and if you don't function, they send you home.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Thus, it is natural for liberals to see it as the function of the government to help people in need and hence to support social programs, while it is equally natural for conservatives to see the function of the government as requiring citizens to be self-disciplined and self-reliant and, therefore, to help themselves. This

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation.

La maladie nous révèle des fonctions normales au moment précis où elle nous en interdit l'exercice.

Experience is the basis of poetry. ?Art is a language, therefore, a social function ?Music comes from the heart and should reach the heart again ?Experience is the basis of poetry. ?Art is a language, therefore, a social function

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.

We train six days a week, and each day includes some type of running or strength workout. It's all about getting functionally stronger in the positions that matter for racing, which means balancing the strength between my quads and hamstrings.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Without exercise, I don't feel like my head works right.

I'm always trying to find the balance between diet and fitness that will make my brain function at its optimum. What I discovered works for me is no refined sugars, processed foods, wheat, and dairy - that's when I'm functioning at my best.

It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.'

You always hear that politics is a function of timing and pacing.