Practicals Quotes - Page 37

• I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

  Truman Capote

  Honesty, Cancer, Heart

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.83, Vintage

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• We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Two, Childhood

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• It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

  Rick Riordan

  Life, Humorous, Enjoy

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.37, Penguin UK

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• In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

  Jules Verne

  Country, America, People

  Jules Verne (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, p.16, My Ebook Publishing House

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• One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.

  E. M. Forster

  Children, Home, Men

  E.M. Forster “Howards End”, Рипол Классик

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• Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

  Lisa Genova

  Creative, Bigs, Generous

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• For most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Two, People, Thieves

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.

  Jane Jacobs

  Lying, Real, Artist

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.101, Vintage

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• Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Thief of Time". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Men, Air

  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money bk. 6, ch. 24 (1936)

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• Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.

  James A. Owen

  Interesting, Equal

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• There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

  E. M. Forster

  Self, Years, Use

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.675, Delphi Classics

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• Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Powerful, Men

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• It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

  Saul Bellow

  Husband, Hate, Substitutes

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking HIm for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems.

  Catherine Marshall

  Father, Blessing, Thanking Him

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• Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.

  John Stuart Mill

  Thinking, Judgement, Weight

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.78, OUP Oxford

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• 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

  Stars, Eye, Generous Spirit

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

  Gail Carriger

  Cat, Animal, Soul

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• A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")

  Wendell Berry

  Spiritual, Racism, Community

  Wendell Berry (2010). “The Hidden Wound”, p.135, Counterpoint Press

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• There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Mean, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.26, Random House

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• Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

  Don DeLillo

  Prayer, Sin, Strategy

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.

  Edward de Bono

  Underwear, Conscious, Streets

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• How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Book, Thinking

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

  Bell Hooks

  Effort, Understanding, Way

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• Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love,and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior,others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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