All Quotes

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
‐‐ Frank Norris

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
‐‐ John George Nicolay

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
‐‐ A. J. Liebling

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
‐‐ Talcott Parsons

The functions of the president are prescribed by the Constitution, but his real achievements are not set by the letter of the law. They are determined rather by his personality, the weight of his influence, his capacity for managing men, and the strength and effectiveness of the party forces behind him.
‐‐ Charles A. Beard

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
‐‐ Charles Hodge

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.
‐‐ Bill Viola

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.
‐‐ Chris Stewart

The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.
‐‐ Archibald Hill

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.
‐‐ Charles A. Beard

The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.
‐‐ Henning Mankell

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
‐‐ Heinrich Heine

The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves.
‐‐ Mark Skousen

The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected.
‐‐ Mallory Factor

The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down.
‐‐ Kevin Barry

The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
‐‐ C. V. Raman

The fundamental interest - long-range strategic interest - of the state of Israel is that we will have the international bodies and primarily the United Nations recognize the two-state solution, so that there will never be any doubt as to the right of Israel to have its own Jewish independent state.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.
‐‐ Lawrence Kutner

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
‐‐ Damon Lindelof

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
‐‐ John Adams

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
‐‐ Paul Dirac

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
‐‐ Nancy Cartwright

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.
‐‐ Enrico Fermi

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
‐‐ Leon Panetta

The fundamental principles of prosperity in every country are so well understood that they need but little if any discussion. They are so simple that with the proper cooperative action the American people collectively can easily place this wonderful country of ours in the position that it is so well qualified to hold among the nations of the world.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.
‐‐ Leopoldo Lopez

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
‐‐ Fred Brooks

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.
‐‐ Bill Joy

The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
‐‐ Juan Goytisolo

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
‐‐ Isaiah Berlin

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
‐‐ Rob Bell

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
‐‐ Sally Mann

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
‐‐ Maelle Gavet