Pragmatically Correct Quotes & Sayings

You're smart, pretty, and you aren't a douche purse. — Gena Showalter

Stillness is the ruler of haste. — Laozi

My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep. — Sylvia Earle

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Excellence is never an accident. — Jerold Panas

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now. — Valerie Simpson

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. — D.H. Lawrence

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote. — Michael Jackson

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. — Epictetus

In any East Asian culture, you will find that women have a very tangible power within the household. This is often rejcted by non-Asian feminists who argue that it is not real power, but.. Japanese women look at the low status attributed to the domestic labor of housewives in North America and feel that this amounts to a denigration of a fundamental social role - whether it is performed by a man or a woman. — Sandra Buckley

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

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. — John Steinbeck

Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift. — Craig Brown

Just because you have superpowers, that doesn't mean your love life would be perfect. I don't think superpowers automatically means there won't be any personality problems, family problems or even money problems. I just tried to write characters who are human beings who also have superpowers. — Stan Lee

I don't know how it works, the science and math of it all, but I know that love given is courage gained. — Annie F. Downs

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through. — Jill Hennessy