Quotes About Dysfunctional

I knew dating the son of Satan would turn out badly

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

I do think that it's a dysfunctional relationship between columnists and commentators, because they both seem to hate each other, like a terrible marriage.

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

I think it's best if I remain as dysfunctional as I can.

I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.

Veeva squirmed up and down the length of me, vibrating like a coin operated motel bed. When she stopped kissing my mouth, I said, "It sounds so great, Veeva. Just you and me with our brand new plastic surgery noses, running for our lives, hating each other's guts... Both of us getting to look more and more like Michael Jackson every day.

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

In functional families the roles are chosen and are flexible. The members have the choice of giving up the roles. In dysfunctional families the roles are rigid.

As the shame internalization process took place in your dysfunctional family, your needs became bound by shame. After a while you no longer knew what you needed. There was no way to learn how to ask for what you wanted. As your dependency needs were violated, you came to believe that you couldn't depend on anyone.

We ourselves did not invent family habits. For all eternity, your family is like mine, a dysfunctional lifestyle and a passing of habits from generation to generation. Not out of malice, spite, or hate, but what was known true and what was known best. As ineffective as these habits were, we knew no better way of loving one another.

Transaction costs use up resources in ways that are unrelated to the actual value of the business to be done. In the extreme, transaction costs can cause markets to be dysfunctional.

Restructuring is a favorite tactic of antisocials who have reached a senior position in an organization. The chaos that results is an ideal smokescreen for dysfunctional leadership. Failure at the top goes unnoticed, while the process of restructuring creates the illusion of a strong, creative hand on the helm.

Like every family, mine is dysfunctional. Here as well, we find two distinct groups: families who admit it, and families who don't and go on pretending.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

And politicians in Washington and Tallahassee are still undermining efforts to fix the dysfunctional ecosystem, even as they bloviate about its beauty and majesty and irreplaceability.

Matt Hardy may be dysfunctional, but you can't spell dysfunctional without fun. My goal in the professional wrestling industry is to put fun into the dysfunctionality of it.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.