Funkcionalismus Quotes & Sayings

Humor today goes hand in hand with our rationality, and not just rationality in the sense of cognitive sophistication, but also in the sense of a rational attitude toward the world. Part of this attitude is viewing things critically, and people with a well developed sense of humor naturally look at things critically, because they are looking for incongruity. — John Morreall

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. — James Surowiecki

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. — Keith Miller

Despite their poverty, their tragic pasts, their own sorrows, they stood before her in strength and spoke with a wisdom that defied their circumstances. — Janette Oke

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you. — Rick Warren

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain. — Martin Sheen

Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it ... Only humans do that, wizard. — Jim Butcher

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted. — Carroll Shelby

I am the donation to the foundation. — Baron Davis

When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck! — Winston Churchill

I wasn't going to rob her, or touch her. I was just going to kill her. — David Berkowitz

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard — Jude Morgan