Valued Function Defined

Famous quotes containing the words valued, function and/or defined:

    “The opposite of love is not hate, as many believe, but rather indifference. Nothing communicates disinterest more clearly than distancing. A child cannot feel valued by parents who are forever absorbed in their own affairs.”
    —Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)

    “My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.”
    —Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)

    “A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; and a partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)