I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave.
I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
If I don't have pressure, I don't function.
That is one of the reasons why we have raised this matter about the need to focus quite sharply on the function of local government, but also on the resourcing of local government. Because it may very well be that we say to local government, you have got to run an indigent policy.
I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. . . . But I doubt.
To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.
To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes. . . is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.
Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.
I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.
Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Health is a function of participation.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which is in fact routine - it's passed every year - which allows the government to borrow money, otherwise it can't function. If Congress does not approve this budget request, the government may have to default.
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat. , Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi. ]