Practiced Quotes

374 quotes by 327 authors

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go… — Michelle Sagara
We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected… — David Rockefeller
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were -… — Brennan Manning
But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a… — Laurell K. Hamilton
When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the… — Maggie Stiefvater
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary. — Benjamin Franklin
Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book… — Jonathan Safran Foer
If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can… — Malcolm Gladwell
I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I… — Portia de Rossi
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. — John Lennon
And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by… — Michael Chabon
She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she… — Catherynne M. Valente
Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats… — Henry Miller
What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life… — Arthur Golden
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as… — John Grisham
I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners. — Karen Marie Moning

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