Quotes About Pragmatics

#1. Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.

M.B. Parkes

#2. The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

Jurgen Habermas

#3. To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation ... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.

Saul Alinsky

#4. Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky.

David Foster Wallace

#5. When she saw a strange man whom she didn't trust, she did an immediate breakdown in her mind. It was quicker - honoring the pragmatics of fear - than pretending she shouldn't think this way.

Alice Sebold

#6. Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

Philip Zaleski

#7. I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.

Tiffani Thiessen

#8. The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

John Lyly

#9. Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.

Chris Rock

#10. The better question was, what was holding us prisoners?

Skye Warren

#11. I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate.

Conor McGregor

#13. When you are asleep you can't tell whether or not you are alone, or diminished, or whatever. I have nothing, I thought. But that's not true. I have her absence. You can see it clearly. Look for the edges of my existence that surround it.

Meg Howrey

#14. Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Simon Mawer

#15. January was the season for house robberies and violence. Christmas was over, and the new year just reminded you of how little your life had changed, and man, people got angry in January.

Gillian Flynn

#16. Meditation is the best means of elongating life

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#17. The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

Denis Waitley

#18. The short story narrates the moment when a dark door, long closed, is opened, when a forgotten error is unwittingly repeated, when the fabric of a life is revealed to have been woven from frail and dubious fiber over top of something unknowable and possibly very bad.

Michael Chabon