I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than… — Lisa Hoffman Copy Share Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable,… — Lena Olin Copy Share Image
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose,… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A devotional book, which takes a Scripture text, and so opens it for us in the morning - that all day long… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
From a policy point of view, I don't think it's the right approach. I don't like the idea of having millions of… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical… — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Steve McClellan has drawn on an insider's lifetime view of how Wall Street really works to produce a practical and entertaining book… — Charles O. Rossotti Copy Share Image
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
We may exist in all universes, but 'hear' only one because of our limitations, the valve of our desires, our practical, physical… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Clothes should be practical. I like the concept of easy wear. I think [86-year-old] actress Emmanuelle Riva was extremely chic. She's super… — Christophe Lemaitre Copy Share Image
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a… — Roy Scheider Copy Share Image
I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them,… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to… — Thanissaro Bhikkhu Copy Share Image
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