Pragmatically Quotes

#1. Pragmatically speaking, I like the fact that the masses vote, abuse drugs, believe in Jesus, follow sports, and worship a flag. They are tools of social engineering that keep the many-too-many sedate, pacified, and out of many people's hair (chiefly, my own).

Matt Paradise

#2. You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a lot longer.

Peace Pilgrim

#3. Part of John's meaning of the cross, then, is that it is not only what happens, purely pragmatically, when God's kingdom challenges Caesar's kingdom. It is also what has to happen if God's kingdom, which makes its way (as Jesus insists) by nonviolence rather than by violence, is to win the day.

N. T. Wright

#4. I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

Massimo Vignelli

#5. Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. We read, I think, to repair our solitude, though pragmatically the better we read, the more solitary we become.

Harold Bloom

#7. Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.

Gary Johnson

#8. Our greatest challenge today ... is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.

Kirk J. Schneider

#9. Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

Ava Gardner

#10. I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#11. Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a blunder.

Harold Bloom

#12. I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#13. Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women's, it fills all the room it finds.

John Crowne

#14. With a thousand eyes, the river looked at him

Hermann Hesse

#15. Because as proud as I am of you, I need to do something that makes me proud of myself (Harper)

Lorelei James

#16. Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!

Erwin W. Lutzer

#17. Fashion is a humbling topic. Because it is aesthetically complex and economically challenging, the recipe for successful designs is never guaranteed.

Frederic Godart

#18. Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#19. Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She'd fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor.

Leigh Bardugo

#20. Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#21. The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you must seduce the senses to it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. All writing is a process of elimination.

Martha Albrand

#23. Fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you'll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving.

Carol S. Dweck

#24. However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.

P.G. Wodehouse

#25. Surely Tillie knew glitter on wrinkled cleavage was a sin.

Julie Anne Lindsey

#26. For us, silence is all we have ever known. I do not speak because I do not know what to say. He does not speak because he has no interest in talking.

Alessandra Torre

#27. The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

David Barton