If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I… — Jude Deveraux Copy Share Image
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students’ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid,… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
We could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to find practical, commonsense solutions to health care, to education, to energy issues, because although… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense. — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
