Funny Pragmatism Quotes

#1. [this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

Aristotle.

#2. And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Don't be determined to never have problems. Be determined to stay full of joy in the midst of your problems.

Joel Osteen

#4. Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.

Ann Romney

#5. I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

Bruce Springsteen

#6. Go is most fun I've had with a compiled PL since I've discovered Turbo Pascal as a kid.

Bojan Markovic

#7. I never have suspected or sensed a whiff of cheating in any of our Super Bowls.

Marv Levy

#8. Reality was a makeshift prop, an amalgamation of agreed-upon conjecture, a consensus of self-limiting parameters and paradigms made palatable by endless speculation fueled by madness and hope and no mean amount of good dope.

Laird Barron

#9. Progress won't be a straight line but if you keep learning you will have more successes than failures, and the mistakes you make along the way will help you get to where you want to go.

Scott Berkun

#10. For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

Albert Einstein

#11. We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

Thomas Paine

#12. Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

Carl Jung

#13. No one asks to be born, to be black or white or any color in between and yet the identity a person is born into becomes the hardest to explain to the world

A. Igoni Barrett

#14. My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

Billy Collins