Funny Pragmatism Quotes & Sayings

Some burglars are vermin, they're no better than, well, investment bankers - there, I've said it. — Ian Pattison

Did you see her?" I said. He raised his eyebrows. "The real me." "She's right here," he said, and kissed me. — Leah Raeder

My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has. — Ted Chiang

I cried when i saw those
buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart. — Suheir Hammad

Woe entreats: Go! Away, woe! But all that suffers wants to live, that it may become ripe and joyous and longing- longing for what is farther, higher, brighter. "I want heirs"- thus speaks all that suffers; "I want children; I do not want myself".
Joy, however, does not want heirs, or children- joy wants itself, wants eternity, wants recurrence, wants everything eternally the same. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit. — Flea

No matter what you want to achieve in life, if you don't make an effort, you'll never achieve it". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us. — William Booth

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement. — Tiger Woods

I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential. — Eli Manning

Yeah, it's you. It suits you. I wanted something to match your eyes, but I also wanted something that reflected your personality. Your vibrancy. — Maya Banks

He slides his button-up under my ass and pulls down his boxer-briefs, freeing an enormous, vein-striped, purple-headed fuck machine. — Ella James

I remember watching Regis and Kathie Lee interview celebrities, and my mom looked so happy. I just did the math. I wanted to make my mom happy, and I wanted to talk to celebrities. Basically, I wanted Kathie Lee's job! — Ross Mathews

All I've done is work ... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since. — Jeremy Piven