Pragmatic Quotes · Page 11

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been…

— Anonymous

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule…

— Maurice Strong

You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis,…

— Charlie Kaufman

I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's…

— David Bezmozgis

“Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Your destiny is connected with your calling”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The doctrine of waiting for confirmation is one of the greatest time killers”

— Sunday Adelaja

I'm a very pragmatic soul. I'm part of the business and I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to being…

— Jane Anderson

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

I think it's a good thing that we can have relatively non-partisan political conversations because I don't think that my premier necessarily…

— Naheed Nenshi

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

— Colin Wilson

I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids…

— Colm Feore

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…

— David Wenham

“If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it”

— Sunday Adelaja

As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are…

— Barney Frank

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

— Richard M. Nixon

Naturally looking at something will become so important in your aesthetic. For that, you have to be disciplined, too, in the way…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the…

— William James

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

“Throw away the doctrine of waiting for confirmation”

— Sunday Adelaja

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

— Adam Michnik

An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a…

— Kedar Joshi

Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as…

— Frederick Lenz

The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of…

— Nelson Rockefeller

[Ginsburg's] feminism was very sweeping and very ambitious and very consistent. Justice O'Connor had a more case-by-case, pragmatic approach to her feminism.…

— Linda Hirshman