Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline. — Larry David Copy Share Image
I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality. — Alexa Hampton Copy Share Image
Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
They say rubbers mainly for perverts. Dont know why. Think its very practical, actually. I mean, you spill anything on it and… — Charlotte Coleman Copy Share Image
Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit's work in our lives to produce the desire… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So,… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health,… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and… — Genevieve Bell Copy Share Image
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical. — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately. — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
