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Practicing Quotes (page 42)

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions. Albert Camus
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art..."
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. W. Somerset Maugham
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. Erica Jong
Edward Abbey quote: "Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical..."
Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most. Edward Abbey
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion. Eudora Welty
One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock. Mercedes Lackey
In neither taste nor precision is any man's practice a court of last appeal, for writers all, both great and small, are habitual sinners against the light; and their accuser is cheerfully aware that his own work will supply ... many 'awful examples'... Ambrose Bierce
In theory, every loss is for our own good; in practice, though, that is when we question the existence of God and ask ourselves: What did I do to deserve this? Paulo Coelho
A prominent judge was asked what we, as citizens of the countries of the world, could do to reduce crime and disobedience to law and to bring peace and contentment into our lives and into our nations. He thoughtfully replied, ‘I would suggest a return to the old-fashioned practice of family prayer. Thomas S. Monson
Those things don’t really matter. I mean, things like having no money and not having enough to eat. Even when you’re practically starving - it doesn’t change anything inside you. Oh well, it’s beastly while it’s happening, of course; but it doesn’t make any real difference; it’s the things that happen inside you that matter.’ ‘Meaning?’ said Mr. Warburton. ‘Oh - things change in your mind. And then the whole world changes, because you look at it differently. George Orwell
But this practice [vegetarianism], in which youthful love of austerity finds charm, calls for attentions more complicated than those of culinary refinement itself; and it separates us too much from the common run of men in a function which is nearly always public, and in which either friendship or formality presides. Marguerite Yourcenar
Stephen Crane quote: "They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles."
They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles. Stephen Crane
choose now," he spat, his eyes practically shooing sparks. "me or him."gosh, Fang, you romantic fool," i said sarcastically."howw incredibly sexist pig of you. James Patterson
Charles Dickens quote: "Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many..."
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh! Charles Dickens
But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world any more. Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to... Michael Crichton

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