#pragmatic

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#days #free #going #i #i love

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love #pragmatic #serene #truth #beauty

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

#direct #force #i #long-term #need

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#assertive #began #both #british #canada

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#between #certain #certain things #form #idea

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#anymore #does #everyone #fantasy #hard

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#belief #celebrities #certain #clerical #cult

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#angels #guy #i #kind #pragmatic

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

#any #because #been #between #considerations

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#extremism #fight #governments #israel #logic