Quotes About Practicality

It must be a great deal better to be sensible; but still, I don't believe I'd really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic.

I guess we could pile some rocks on her, Call said. I hate just to leave a body laying out. Woodrow, she's mostly et anyway, Gus said. Why spoil the buzzards' picnic?

Louis Wu hardly noticed this triumph of practicality over honor, intelligence over xenophobia.

he'd wanted to do for years while we dated—the whole princely sweep-you-off-your-feet shit. I liked to keep my feet firmly on the ground unless sex was involved, and you can't really have sex in a horse-drawn carriage; it scares the horses.

The thigh holster wasn't bad actually, though I wouldn't have wanted to try it unless I had pants on to protect my thighs. My thighs rub together when I walk, thank you very much. But with jeans it wasn't bad.

My dear Mrs. Grimstone, sometimes cowardice is merely another word for common sense.

When the choice came down to tears, strong drink, or potatoes, one chooses potatoes. She

First and foremost a pragmatist, he had no time for the interference of unnecessary standards.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.

Apparently loved did weird things to a girl's practical decision-making skills - Matilda

We are seekers of beauty, but avoid extravagance. We admire learning, but are unimpressed by pedantry. For us, wealth is an aim for its value when used, not as an empty boast. And the disgrace of poverty lies not in the admission of it, but more in the failure to avoid it in practice.

The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

If you do something and it saves your life, it was good taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's pretty.

Life is so unlike theory.

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.