I Quotes
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“In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds.”
“In practice it is death that works so
seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep”
“In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the laboratory; I doubt if the sagacity of the researchers who have studied the question has overlooked the possibility.”
Source: Cheikh Anta Diop: an African scientist : an axiomatic overview of his teachings and thoughts
“In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.”
Source: The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler
“In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.”
“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”
Source: Republic
“In practice, self-deceptive altruism allows leftist dictators to extol the egalitarian virtues of their ideology, while systematically violating every egalitarian promise.”
Source: Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
“In practice, sin’s counterfeit of God’s love is impossible to perfect, for perfection here ends in the void, the undoing of the bonds of creation. The soul that falls away into sin continues to love mortal beloveds, but its attachments lack measure, and so its love goes begging. It wanders about aimlessly in a ‘wasteland of need’ (regio egestatis).”
“In practice “talent” means whatever brings YOU joy; following joy will help YOU carry out your purpose for that lifetime.”
Source: Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir.
“In practice "talent" means whatever brings YOU joy. Following joy will help YOU to carry out your purpose for that lifetime.”
Source: Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening—A Memoir
“In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school.”
Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.”
“In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.”
Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice
“In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.”
“In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.”
“In practice, I run every play like I'm scoring a touchdown.”
“In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.”
“In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.”
Source: The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz
“In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that--don't be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain. Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!”
Source: Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha's Teachings
“In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.”
“In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.”
Source: Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
“In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.”
Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.”
“In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more than happy to define and enforce their own private property interests according to their own subjective rules.”
“In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps roll their eyes, slick young businesswomen purse their mouths, teenagers look disgusted, waitresses anxious. But it strikes me as ironic that many members of the public fret about British Muslims donning the hijab, yet happily condone the veiling of nursing mothers.”
“In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.”
“In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely.”
Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works.”
Source: Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
“In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.”
“In praising myself, I only insult myself.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.”
“In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.”
“In pranayama you don't worry about taking breaths, you focus on exhalation. If you exhale properly you will inhale. The more deeply you exhale the more deeply you will inhale.”
“In prayer and in every work of your life avoid suspicious ness, doubt and diabolical imaginations. Let your spiritual eye be single, in order that the whole body of your prayer, of your works and of your life may be light.”
“In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve.”
Source: Memoirs of Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians of North America
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
“In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.”
“In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.”
“In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.”
Source: Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses
“In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we can ask, if it is according to His will.”
“In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender”
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
“In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.”
“In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.”
“In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!”
“In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.”
“In praying for His enemies not only did Christ set before us a perfect example of how we should treat those who wrong us an hate us, but He also taught us never to regard any as beyond the reach of prayer.”
Source: The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross
“In pre-air conditioning days, even a little cooling breeze felt good. On this particular evening the dining room was filled to capacity, as the French Hotel was still one of the best places to eat in Monrovia. The overflow extended out under the cover of the verandah and was also filled with people. With so few places to dine in Monrovia, eating here under the corrugated fiberglass roof was a treat for the expats. I had already eaten aboard ship and was hoping that some of my friends would come around and join me for a few drinks but that evening it didn't happen and I didn’t recognize many people. It did however give me the opportunity to talk to Monique.
After some two hours of talking to her between drinks I learned that she came from the Left Bank of Paris. Her parents lived above an antique shop on the Rue de las Halles and were adamantly against her coming to Africa. Because of an argument she had left her boyfriend behind, and now I think was sorry for that, although she wouldn’t admit it. It was obvious that she was homesick and I believe that she thinking about him. Monique couldn’t believe what she got herself into, and now was stuck with a two year contract in this hell hole. She mentioned that although the constant advances from the men was flattering, it was beginning to become wearing. She said that some of the people in Monrovia scared her and I understood exactly what she meant. Just being in Liberia was a challenge…. Was it my imagination, or was I making headway with this dark-haired, French beauty? With each drink I became more convinced of this, and at the same time was feeling less pain. The night was still young and I was in no rush to leave. Surely there was some hope and I was trying my best….
Then, suddenly without warning Monique told me that she had to go. “Je dois y aller maintenant.” What… She’s leaving? I’ve been told that it’s a thing the French do… but leaving me at the bar for no apparent reason? Monique however assured me that her partner, Claudine, would continue serving me and perhaps, “Who knows?” Monique said with a twinkle in her eyes... I shouldn’t have been surprised that she knew what it was that I was angling for. Hell, I thought that I was one of the good guys, besides whom was she sleeping with? A white girl in Liberia would never go it alone…. there had to be someone! What happened that Monique suddenly had to leave? Poof and she was gone! In her stead now was Claudine who was rough around the edges and knew her way around. It never occurred to me that Monique’s shift would be over before the closing hour!”