A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says… — Louis Zamperini 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
I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
To see in a thousandth of a second what indifferent people come close to without noticing - that is the principle of… — Martin Munkacsi Copy Share Image
No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting. — James A. Owen 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
Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience. — William James Copy Share Image
Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic. — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
