Functionalist Theory Quotes & Sayings

Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can. — Barbara Kingsolver

Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested. — Hans Selye

I'd be happy to show you that I'm the only man who knows exactly how deep, high and rough you like it, love." - Gage — Jessie Lane

Such terrifying powers we possess, but what a sorry lot of gods some men are. And the worst of it is not the cruelty but the arrogance, the sheer hubris of those who bring only violence and fear into the animal world, as if it needed any more of either. Their lives entail enough frights and tribulations without the modern fire-makers, now armed with perfected, inescapable weapons, traipsing along for more fun and thrills at their expense even as so many of them die away. It is our fellow creatures' lot in the universe, the place assigned them in creation, to be completely at our mercy, the fiercest wolf or tiger defenseless against the most cowardly man. And to me it has always seemed not only ungenerous and shabby but a kind of supreme snobbery to deal cavalierly with them, as if their little share of the earth's happiness and grief were inconsequential, meaningless, beneath a man's attention, trumped by any and all designs he might have on them, however base, irrational, or wicked. — Matthew Scully

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. — David Sedaris

The difference between you and me is that I always forgive you. — Anuj Kr. Thakur