Matist Quotes & Sayings

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist? — Indira Gandhi

She became my favorite scar. — Jonathan Carroll

Suspect all your favorite sentences. — Kenneth Atchity

We fill our mental strong-room with these great minds and old masters and resort to them at the crucial moment in our lives; — Thomas Bernhard

I took to studying the ones of my teachers who are also preachers ... Everything bad was laid on the body, and everything good was credited to the soul. It scared me a little when I realized that I saw it the other way around. If the soul and body really were divided, than it seemed to me that all the worst sins - hatred and anger and self-righteousness and even greed and lust - came from the soul. But these preachers I'm talking about all thought that the soul could do no wrong, but always had its face washed and its pants on and was in agony over having to associate with the flesh and the world. And yet these same people believed in the resurrection of the body. — Wendell Berry

The bluejacket girlie rode like a clan warrior, but there was no way she'd escape. It was a private life-and-death contest that had nothing to do with him.
He told himself he should ride on, grateful that the chase would keep them occupied while he took a different path.
But what had he told Rebecca when she'd asked what he meant to do when he returned to the Fells?
'I'm tired of people in power picking on the weak. I'm going to help them. — Cinda Williams Chima

If we want less and less, we may in fact receive more and more of what we need. It may work like that. — Art Hochberg

Touch all of your scars and remember their birthdays, remind yourself how far you've come. — Key Ballah

Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise. — Hanne Blank

We wish for a symmetry of feeling, but we rarely get it. It is painful to be the one who loves more, and painful to be the one who loves less. — Brian Morton

God did not reveal every final detail for a reason. He rarely does. If He did, then we would be justified in simply waiting for the Antichrist to come and get us. We would be entirely justified in digging holes in the ground as secret hideouts to store our survival food. But instead, God desires us to actually wrestle with Him in prayer, not only for our own souls and those of our families, but also for the very nations that we live in and call home. — Joel Richardson

I was a ghost on a ghost ship in a ghost island — Maria Semple

I believe in the Enlightenment, Devra. And I don't think that's gonna change. Not now. Not ever. — Felicia Hajra-Lee