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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
— Alma Guillermoprieto
Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.
— Edith Wharton
I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.
— Matt Smith
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.
— Samael Aun Weor
But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move.
— Gillian Flynn
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
— Anthony Giddens
My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.
— Joseph Altuzarra
Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?
— T.K. Naliaka
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
— Joseph Campbell
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
— James MacGregor Burns
You see, control can never be a means to any practical end ... It can never be a means to anything but more control ... like junk..
— William S. Burroughs
The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.
— Catherine McAuley
Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels - practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.
— Geoffrey Wood
When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.
— Elaine Stritch
I don't mind being lord of all I survey but I don't want to have to work at it. It just wouldn't be practical.
— Katherine Dunn
And she realized, standing there, that in all her practical plans for marriage, she'd never thought about the simple pleasure of being loved.
— Jude Watson
All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
— William James
My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry.
— Siri Hustvedt
It is practical, but that doesn't mean it's right.
— Pittacus Lore
I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.
— MaryJanice Davidson
As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have?
— Lisa Bedrick
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
— Karen Duffy
TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom ...
— Ranu Das
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all ... good design must primarily serve people.
— Thomas J. Watson
We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.
— T. F. Tout
My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.
— Sophie Kennedy Clark
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ?
— Novalis
I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.
— Jude Deveraux
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
— Lesley Nicol
That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !
— Peter Ritchie Calder
In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.
— Sun Yat-sen
People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.
— Alistair Begg
The big problem, again, wasn't insanity, but that people's brains were much too big and untruthful to be practical.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
— Aldous Huxley
To the English majors. We may not always be practical, but we have infinite potential.
— Beth Kendrick
The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.
— Julian Barnes
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.
— Franz Kafka
Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.
— Owen Feltham
We talk about normal, and for legal and practical reasons set a bar for expected societal norms. But can any of us really claim normality?" Rese
— Kristen Heitzmann
The word "ungodly and word-group" in Jude...It describes, not theoretical atheism, but practical godlessness.
— Richard Bauckham
If you put your mind to it, not as a school lesson but as a practical tool that you've got to master, you may find it a lot easier than you think.
— Alexander Fullerton
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
— Jonathan Edwards
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.
— George Santayana
Grand gestures may be dramatic, but they're rarely practical.
— Steven Harper
Knowledge is great, but what practical use is it if you can't put it into practice?
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
We're so useful, we practical people. We hold it altogether. But we're seen as killjoys, somehow. Most unfair.
— Joanna Trollope
Science and technology benefit each other, but at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.
— Steven Weinberg
Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.
— James A. Owen
Magick should be used for spiritual evolution and mystical insight; but I am here to tell you that practical magick does work.
— Jason Miller
The heart may not always be practical, but it is always right.
— Debasish Mridha
You may be theoretically rich but practically poor.
— Pushpa Rana
Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.
— Tess Gerritsen
Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.
— Lee Roberson
I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.
— Mitt Romney
She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer.
— Aya Ling
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
— Helen Keller
He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.
— John Cheever
We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.
— Vin Suprynowicz
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.
— E. M. Forster
My practical intelligence said no, but my heart said yes.
— Jonathan Franzen
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
— Mark Twain
Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.
— Ted Bundy
But then, of course, one can peek through the fingers, which is not only pleasurable but a lesson in practical optics.
— James J. Gibson
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
— Richard Feynman
We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
— Frederick Douglass
Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.
— Samuel Butler
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Understanding is a lot like sex; it's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally.
— Frank Oppenheimer
Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.
— Stephen Hawking