Dysfunctional Quotes

1. "For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview."
Author: Amy Davidson

2. "The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any one sitting. And they always ended up laughing. Even when the subject matter was intense or macabre, Henry's sick and twisted and often politically incorrect sense of humor was infectious…Gloria laughed more in these first weeks at Oxford then she remembered laughing almost anywhere."
Author: Andrea Kayne Kaufman

3. "Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world."
Author: Anthon St. Maarten

4. "But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution."
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

5. "The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being one of the many places where abuse nested. This notion, which in the 190s and early 198s was the dominant understanding of professionals characterised the sex abuser as a pathetic person who had been denied sex and warmth by his wife, who in turn denied warmth to her daughters. Out of this dysfunctional triad grew the far-too-cosy incest dyad. Simply diagnosed, relying on the signs: alcoholic father, cold distant mother, provocative daughter. Simply resolved, because everyone would want to stop, to return to the functioning family where mum and dad had sex and daughter concentrated on her exams. Professionals really believed for a while that sex offenders would want to stop what they were doing. They thought if abuse were decriminalised, abusers would seek help. The survivors knew different. P5"
Author: Beatrix Campbell

6. "People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life."
Author: Bo Bennett

7. "You are perfect in your own dysfunctional way. And it's exactly what I want." - Fenn"
Author: Candace Knoebel

8. "If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry."
Author: Carly Fiorina

9. "You know it's a dysfunctional family," said Riker, "when the one you like best is a mass murderer."
Author: Carol O'Connell

10. "Who the hell ain't dysfunctional these days? When the Kennedys straighten out, then maybe the rest of us should worry."
Author: Cathie Pelletier

11. "It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma."
Author: Colleen Truscott Fry

12. "You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'"
Author: Damian Lewis

13. "I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree."
Author: Diane Farr

14. "Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds."
Author: Elizabeth Meriwether

15. "Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors."
Author: Gene Hackman

16. "We're only five years apart," I said defiantly. "If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we're near normal."
Author: Heather Heffner

17. "I know we're all psychotic, single and completely dysfunctional and it's all done over the phone,' Tom slurred sentimentally, 'but it's a bit like a family, isn't it?"
Author: Helen Fielding

18. "I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn't that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?"
Author: Irvin Yalom

19. "Nope, Ali's waiting on you. He's in there watching some cockamamie show about a dysfunctional family that makes duck calls."
Author: James Patterson

20. "Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting."
Author: James Surowiecki

21. "Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction."
Author: James Young

22. "If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"
Author: Jeff Foxworthy

23. "Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently."
Author: Joe Bastianich

24. "Jenny couldn't believe herself a multiple. She was a mother, a nurse, not that screwball who appeared on the screen like some dysfunctional figment of her imagination trying to find a life. Still, she was coming to a realization that accepting who she was would be the jailer's key to liberate her from this cuckoo's nest."
Author: Judy Byington

25. "Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way. The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor."
Author: Katherine Boo

26. "My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them."
Author: Kelly Ripa

27. "It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness..."
Author: Kristin Chenoweth

28. "I'll kill him for you."He sounded so sincere, and so accepting of her dysfunctional childhood, that a smile bloomed in Priss's heart. "Thank you." She drew him down to her for a longer kiss, one he gladly accepted. "That's sweet of you, but no."His eyes narrowed. "Sweet? I offer to kill a man and you think it's sweet?""You wanted to kill him anyway. And so do I." The hard on his chest fascinated her, so she concentrated on that. "You've never come right out and said so, but I've known for a while that you're a good guy, Trace."He gave her a cautious survey. "I'm not sure that accurately describes me."
Author: Lori Foster

29. "In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't."
Author: Malachy McCourt

30. "We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration."
Author: Martin Sheen

31. "Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people of this state and lead California from its current dysfunctional condition to the bright future that all residents long for."
Author: Mary Bono

32. "I grew up in a dysfunctional family."
Author: Melissa Gilbert

33. "Government is dysfunctional."
Author: Michael Bloomberg

34. "Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks."
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

35. "It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together."
Author: Patrick Duffy

36. "I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that."
Author: Picabo Street

37. "In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system."
Author: Renee Fredrickson

38. "I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it."
Author: Richard Holbrooke

39. "So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional."
Author: Richard Paul Evans

40. "I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring."
Author: Robbie Williams

41. "You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it."
Author: Sarah Pekkanen

42. "Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not."
Author: Shailene Woodley

43. "We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family."
Author: Star Jones

44. "The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.'- Traveller"
Author: Steven Erikson

45. "That we're dysfunctional and toxic!""We were dysfunctional and toxic," I correct her."
Author: Tarryn Fisher

46. "I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good."
Author: Thandie Newton

47. "Life was a sham. Smoke and mirrors hid the dysfunctional lives all of us lived."
Author: Tiffany King

48. "Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. It's the deepest, wildest part of the forest; the grove where the fairies still dance and obscene old vipers snooze in the boughs. Everybody but the most dried up and dysfunctional is drawn to the grove and enchanted by its mysteries, but then they just can't wait to call in the chain saws and bulldozers and replace it with a family-style restaurant or a new S and L. That's the payoff, I guess. Safety. Security. Certainty. Yes, indeed. Well, remember this, pussy latte: we're not involved in a 'relationship,' you and I, we're involved in a collision. Collisions don't much lend themselves to secure futures..."
Author: Tom Robbins

49. "An Odonian's goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive."
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

50. "I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!"
Author: Werner Herzog

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