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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
— Michael Graves
Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat.
— Monica Crowley
You've got to look at the pragmatic choice you have at each moment. If you start to look at the pragmatic choice, a different possibility can show up.
— Gary M. Douglas
A pragmatic person sees the dark and the light side of life, while anidealist sees a life filled with colors. — Eraldo Banovac
The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.
— John Warwick Montgomery
The locals were pragmatic about their animals in a way the city people found callous.
— Anna Quindlen
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
— Bryant McGill
The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.
— Colin Wilson
How could a man become a god?" Nell asked. "By living in an extremely pragmatic society," said Constable Moore after some thought
— Neal Stephenson
All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.
— Richard John Neuhaus
Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.
— Vera Farmiga
I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
— Linus Torvalds
An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.
— Carlo Rovelli
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
— Ursula Burns
I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.
— Sebastian Horsley
I am a very pragmatic person.
— Gloria Swanson
We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.
— Deval Patrick
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
— Tori Amos
Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.
— Neal Stephenson
Bring real and practical life experience to the people
— Sunday Adelaja
In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.
— David Bezmozgis
Live your life as a practical example to others
— Sunday Adelaja
An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
— Adam Michnik
I'm very pragmatic.
— Andrea Riseborough
I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.
— Martin Freeman
Nations, like people, are often more pragmatic than they know or can explain.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.
— Harold Prince
But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.
— Kathleen Parker
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
— Zig Ziglar
Indeed, it may be suggested that 'traditions' and pragmatic conventions or routines are inversely related.
— Eric Hobsbawm
I'm a pragmatic fucker when I start to get my head cleared out, even while the shit is flying. Whatever
— Bobby Adair
Just drive down that road until you get blown up.
— George S. Patton Jr.
Before the rise of Deism, Calvin condemned the pragmatic deism which relegated God to heaven and left the government of the world to men.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
I have a pragmatic suspicion that bashing someone's head in with a golf club is frowned upon in this establishment...
— J.C. Wickhart
Dream in a pragmatic way.
— Aldous Huxley
Well, we'll know better next time.
— Tom Stoppard
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
— Richard M. Nixon
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
— Ha-Joon Chang
It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
— Shimon Peres
Change is always a question; they that find good and pragmatic answers to it cause true change that make real impact
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.
— John Amaechi
I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.
— Susan Brooks
Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.
— Idries Shah
Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.
— Ken Livingstone
My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.
— S.A. Tawks
I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.
— David Wenham
American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.
— Henry A. Kissinger
I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.
— Roman Abramovich
However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.
— Robert Winston
For the sorry truth is that in this most pragmatic land, the purist is generally his own worst enemy.
— Harry Stein
My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
— Tamsin Egerton
