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"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions." »Unknown
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"practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming." »J.P. McEvoy
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"The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes." »Henry Kissinger
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"Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny." »Tryon Edwards
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"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny." »Tyron Edwards
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"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." »Washington Irving
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"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes." »Kenneth Hildebrand
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"There is nothing more practical than a good theory." »Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, quoted in V Rich, Nature, 1977, 270, pp470-1
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"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction." »Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
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"Engineering is the art or science of making practical." »Samuel C. Florman
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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago." »William Hazlitt
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"practical politics consists in ignoring facts." »Henry Adams
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"To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness." »William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
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"My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"To coldfriend or coldfriending - Reaching out of the blue, via the internet, to a previously unknown person, for business purposes." »Chase LeBlanc
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"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible." »Claude T Bissell
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"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." »Eric Hoffer
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"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love." »Don Barthelme
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"Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one." »Hafiz
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"practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses." »Author Unknown
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"Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible." »Unknown
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"Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished." »John Stewart Mills
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"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical." »William Seward Burroughs
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H. L. Mencken
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only." »Samuel Smiles
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"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke." »Herman Melville
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H.L. Mencken
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