Pragmatically Justified Quotes & Sayings

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism. — David Harvey

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. — Noam Chomsky

He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him. — Gustave Flaubert

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high. — Eudora Welty

It is hard going to the door
cut so small in the wall where
the vision which echoes loneliness
brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood. — Robert Creeley

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Economists copied their mathematics from the work of 19th-century physicists: they see individuals and businesses as interchangeable atoms, not as unique creators. — Peter Thiel

When somebody calls you stupid, if your face turns red from anger, it means that a part of you believes in this! When you call a wise man stupid, his colour never changes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love. — Andy Murray

If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem. — Stephanie Klein

I've never felt invincible. I've never used that word to describe me ever. — Serena Williams

I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for. — Allen Covert

You've got to be happy in your own skin. — Jada Pinkett Smith

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge. — Adolf Hitler