While we teach our daughters about self defense, we should teach the sons about being respectful as well. A society cannot function properly if only one gender is rising. It has to be in tandem. It cannot be unequal. There has to be balance for upliftment.
Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don’t know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I’m designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
Make sure you aren’t sacrificing function for fashion. A great shoe has both.
Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I’ve done, to wrap it up.
You can be ideological; you can be passionate about your issues – I’m all for that. And there are some issues I refuse to give in on. But for the state to function, for government to function, there has to be some level of deal-making.
I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they’re alone.
No matter how your breading or batter is constructed, it serves the same function: Adding a layer of ‘stuff’ around the item being fried means the oil has a tough time coming in direct contact with it, and thus has a hard time transferring energy to it.
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man – social and political – and to the entire universe as a whole.
I feel like Court Yard Hounds keeps us idling. I think Emily and I function better when we’re continually making music and playing, and this is a way to keep doing that.
Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you’re going to play for people. But when you’re playing for listening, you’re free.
Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by algorithms. You typically have to know what you’re looking for in order to find it.
The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
The bass player’s function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car… everything else is merely colours.
Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also validate and legitimize the government in the eyes of the people by declaring these actions valid and constitutional.
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Shellac was asked to do a recreation of our first album, but we’ve always been a band that improvised our sets. That’s critical to the way that we function on stage. Whatever the mood takes us on stage can vary from night to night with what you feel like playing.
I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I’m left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.
On the beach, we women are at our most exposed and therefore most vulnerable. As any woman deserves to look and feel good, especially when she’s away on holiday, she needs swimwear that pays proper attention to comfort and function. And there should also be some thought put into value.
I function properly, feel better, do better, look better, and treat others better when there’s less clutter.
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.
There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I’m literally going door to door for a function.
Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function.
Unless we citizens speak out, unless we are vigilant, democracy cannot fully function.
We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited – sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
Morality and its victim, the mother – what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
Lady Justice doesn’t have empathy for anyone. She rules strictly based upon the law, and that’s really the only way that our system can function properly under the Constitution.
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
You really can’t function without a phone or an iPad.
You look at marketing: everything that’s happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that’s happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that’s driven by information technology. It’s no longer discrete.
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It’s useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.
I remember, as a kid, going into other people’s houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There’s something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.
The people will demand answers from all the dictators and the people who have not allowed this country to function.
You have to accept that Batman is a fact of life in Gotham City, and on top of that, you have to accept that somehow this city manages to function with a police force that’s 90% corrupt.
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.
We just haven’t had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall – fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.
I want my man to be the man, and I want to be the woman. Maybe that’s not for everyone, but that’s how we function.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
