Pragmatic Quotes

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We can only speak true, talk straight and be outspoken, if we prove to be able to decrypt the veiled elements of the puzzle inside and outside our environment; describe the intricacies of the social constructions and the emotional sensitivities; analyze the feasible contingencies and practical options; arbitrate and come to sensible conclusions; and invent pragmatic proposals and equitable solutions. (“Mutilated memory”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Daily dawns another day;
I must up, to make my way.
Though I dress and drink and eat,
Move my fingers and my feet,
Learn a little, here and there,
Weep and laugh and sweat and swear,
Hear a song, or watch a stage,
Leave some words upon a page,
Claim a foe, or hail a friend-
Bed awaits me at the end.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“You were created for more than to bear the weight of your shadows- but you have to choose to no longer let them define you. You have to choose to let the light shine through the shattered pieces.” – Tiger Lilly”
― Kara Swanson, Dust

“He says you’re cruel.”
“I’m pragmatic. If I were cruel, I’d give him a eulogy instead of a conversation.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Well, we'll know better next time.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“In meetings philosophy might work,
on the field practicality works.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Just drive down that road until you get blown up.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“I mean he's honest, he sees the terrible things, he doesn't try to cover them up or imagine them away — the evil of the world, the senselessness of it all, the rottenness of us ordinary people, our fantasy life, our selfishness —”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Like any good optimist, I don’t expect the worst to happen. Only, like any optimist worth his salt, I like to go and look as soon as possible afterward jest in case it did.”
― William Faulkner, The Mansion

“You're returning to your room barefoot?" Tom asked.
"I have no choice."
"Is there something I can do to help?"
Cassandra shook her head. "I can sneak upstairs myself." She let out a quick little laugh. "Like Cinderella sans pumpkin."
He tilted his head in that inquiring way he had. "Did she have a pumpkin?"
"Yes, haven't you ever read the story?"
"My childhood was short on fairy tales."
"The pumpkin becomes her carriage," Cassandra explained.
"I'd have recommended a vehicle with a longer date of expiration."
She knew better than to try explaining fairy-tale magic to such a pragmatic man.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“What super powers are hiding behind your insanities?”
― Susanna Mittermaier, Pragmatic Psychology

“What if you love your flaws?”
― Susanna Mittermaier, Pragmatic Psychology

“When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with all the other books I haven’t read, so that one day it can present a logistical problem to those who survive me.”
― Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Top

“I decided a long time ago not to apologize for Mia’s meltdowns. She doesn’t hurt anyone, and apologizing for yourself when you haven’t done wrong is a great way to teach people to treat you like garbage. She’s not gonna learn that from me.”
― Cate C. Wells, Hitting the Wall

“You’ve been brave for her a lot, haven’t you?” He says it as if it’s dawning on him, as if he’s fitting a piece of the puzzle together.

He’s not wrong.

That’s what a good mother does. I’ve always known that life is a series of disasters waiting to happen. Mama was always desperate or barely hanging on or losing it. I don’t see why Mia has to think of things that way. I want her to pick herself up and dust herself off. Get mad instead of scared. I don’t want her to see me as pushed around. Powerless.”
― Cate C. Wells, Hitting the Wall

“Being pragmatic is not surrender. Being pragmatic is not cynicism. Being pragmatic is not selling out. In truth, being pragmatic is often the only real path to progress in an uncertain, complicated world.”
― Tom C.W. Lin, The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change

“What if fighting was no longer your first answer but change is?”
― Susanna Mittermaier, Pragmatic Psychology

“Are you choosing your life from the past, the expectation of the future, or from this very moment?”
― Susanna Mittermaier, Pragmatic Psychology

“Depression... is what your suffering actually yours?”
― Susanna Mittermaier, Pragmatic Psychology

“A pragmatic, elegant and virtuous one refrains from such affairs that stamp a black spot on its dignity, reputation, and persona.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“But the main source of the naturalistic outlook is the political experience of the generation of 1848: the failure of the revolution, the suppression of the June insurrection and the seizure of power by Louis Napoleon. The disappointment of the democrats and the general disillusionment caused by these events finds its perfect expression in the philosophy of the objective, realistic, strictly empirical natural sciences. After the failure of all ideals, of all Utopias, the tendency is now to keep to the facts, to nothing but the facts. The political origins of naturalism explain in particular its anti-romantic and ethical features: the refusal to escape from reality and the demand for absolute honesty in the description of facts; the striving for impersonality and impassibility as the guarantees of objectivity and social solidarity; activism as the attitude intent not only on knowing and describing but on altering reality; the modernism which keeps to the present as the sole subject-of consequence; and, finally, its popular trend both in the choice of subject and in the choice of public.”
― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art: Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age

“In reality the oft-invoked distinction between constitutive rule and prag- matic rule has no raison d’être. Every constitutive rule—the bishop moves in this or that way—can be formulated as a pragmatic rule—“one cannot move the bishop except diagonally”—and vice versa. The same happens with grammati- cal rules: the syntactic rule “in French the subject normally precedes the verb” can be formulated pragmatically as “you cannot say pars je ; you can only say je pars.” In truth it is a matter of two different ways of considering the game—or language: one as a formal system that exists in itself (namely, as a langue) and another as a use or praxis (namely, as a parole).
For this reason it has rightly been asked whether it is possible to transgress a rule of chess, like what constitutes checkmate. One would be tempted to say that transgression, which is impossible on the level of constitutive rules, is pos- sible on the pragmatic level. In reality, the one who transgresses the rule simply ceases playing. Hence the special gravity of the swindler: the one who swindles does not transgress a rule but pretends to keep playing when in reality he has left the game.”
― Giorgio Agamben, The Omnibus Homo Sacer

“A pragmatic, elegant, and virtuous one refrains from such affairs that stamp a black spot on its dignity, reputation, and persona.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Boys, here's where I cash in my chips.”
― Hatton W. Sumners

“I don’t let him finish. “You are so full of yourself. Can you even hear what you’re saying? Cash, I can assure you, you have had exactly zero impact on my life except for some minor inconveniences and a firm belief that money can’t buy sense, tact, or common decency.”
― Cate C. Wells, Against a Wall

“I will not die
There are two of I
Two of eye
Astigmatic eye
Pragmatic I”
― Gordon Roddick

“It's time for us to reassess our diplomatic playbook and adopt a more pragmatic and effective strategy for navigating the intricate web of global relations.”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-