Pragmaticity Quotes & Sayings

The judge punishes lawbreakers as a burning house injures its occupants. A person may be burned to death while robbing a home or saving a friend. Similarly, from a moral point of view, the judge's work is good or evil, depending on whether the laws he enforces are good or evil. — Thomas Szasz

I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes. — Dita Von Teese

Always remember your days are blessed. You may know how to profit from them or you may not, but they are blessed. — Nadia Boulanger

Whoever lives wins. Don't feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that died before you. That's good enough.
Vol 1 Chap 4 — Atsuko Asano

Still, I was thinking that this was all wrong, despite feeling so nice, for once again one of my most sacred and deepest erotic fantasies was brutally being shattered, and once more it was all because of Ami. After all, it had been one of my fondest dreams, as a teenager, to lie in bed cuddling with a cute girl, or even with Yumi. Of course, in those many imaginations, we were both naked and we were having wild passionate sex as well as cuddling, but there before me at that very moment was the sad pathetic reality. — Andrew James Pritchard

There is no book so bad ... that it does not have something good in it. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don't ostracize the gender in front of you. — Emma Watson

Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles. — John Lennon

Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

It was as if she had once been almost smothered and then allowed to live only if she limited her vocabulary and breathed hardly at all. — Edith Pearlman

Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes. — David Nicholls

That was somewhere near the middle of a modern gold rush. Never before have so many unskilled twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time as we did this decade in New York and London. — Michael Lewis

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it. — Barry N. Malzberg

The purpose of God is not to save us from hell; the purpose of God is to save us to make us like Christ and to make us like God. God will never be done with us until the day we see His face, when His name will be on our foreheads; and we shall be like Him because we shall see Him as He is. — A.W. Tozer

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. — Margaret Mead