Pragmatics Checklist Quotes & Sayings

If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no reason to import Mexicans to do something they could do at home and then sell to us. I believe this is what economists call "competitive advantage". — Ann Coulter

We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision — Sarah Weddington

Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category. — Marcus Giles

We're both fucked up in different ways, but we agree to accept that. — Anonymous

The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all faiths at once, with little interest in precise aim. — David Bentley Hart

When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go. — Ingrid Newkirk

Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering. — John Green

Happiness in its purest form is held in silence. — Anne-Marie Cockburn

What remains will be the love that moves the heavens, the stars, people, flowers, insects, the love that obliges us all to walk across the ice despite the danger, that fills us with joy and with fear, and gives meaning to everything. — Paulo Coelho