Quotes About Practicality

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle," she said patiently, "you don't send somebody to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

I dusted once. It came back. I'm not falling for that again.

I give dignity second place to expedience," said Cugel.

give dignity second place to expedience

with a piece of frontier advice long tested in the crucible of practicality:

I... had no need for cheering dreams," he wrote. "Facts are better than dreams.

Think about Kennedy. Think about Carter. Think about Clinton. Think about Obama. They've all been in their forties and from outside Washington, or underdogs in one way or another. I just think that Americans are looking everywhere, saying, 'Hey, show me some authenticity. Show me somebody who's practical. Show me people who run things.'

Common sense is often underrated.

Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to wear when it's time to go out and put on the Ritz!

You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

Does being practical mean we prop up a legal system that's unfair, that bears its weight down on black men and black women, and by extension if you are Hispanic or indigenous or poor? Does being practical mean you don't say to the American people you deserve better than you're getting? That's not the practical we want.

Knowledge is NOT power. The correct application of knowledge is power.

Love is not Theoretical but Practical

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.

The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.

Life is not only about acquiring knowledge, it is about applying knowledge.

The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

If all purchases are spontaneous and simply driven by what is seen and loved, there is a high risk of ending up with 10 cocktail dresses and no outfits for work.