Practically Quotes
554 quotes by 480 authors
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...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition…
— Virginia Woolf
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked…
— Napoleon Hill
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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
— Fran Lebowitz
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The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
— Thomas Paine
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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
— George Orwell
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A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you…
— Harry Callahan
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When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I…
— R L Stine
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If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can…
— Joseph Pilates
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Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the…
— Michael Denton
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A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still…
— Lady Gaga
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In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no…
— Vladimir Kramnik
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I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely…
— Adelle Davis
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Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or…
— Michael Novak
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I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat…
— Robert Frost
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The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the…
— Fritz Todt
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