#function

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ↗

— George Eliot

#function #go #home #husbands #i

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#cannot #extinguished #function #seduce #tolerance

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#been #country #dictator #failing #functioning

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#between #do you know #fine #fine line #function

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#anything #briefing #dreadfully #function #i

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#senate #viewpoint

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#dishwasher #function #i #sheets #well

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle. ↗

— George E. Brown, Jr.

#high #majority #politicians #principle #think

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#dreams #function #give #great #our

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ↗

— Paul Berg

#basis #chemistry #dna #emergence #formed