#practical

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#basic #bloody #called #concepts #fact

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#dry #economic #economic development #improved #islam

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#doctrine #hierarchy #his #holy #holy spirit

So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#many #people #practically #professionally #ready

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#also #assure #concerned #education #goals

I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#choice #hard #i #life #made

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#analyze #comes #continually #does #energy

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#believe #bible #change #church #evangelical

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest. ↗

— Frank Knight

#altogether #any #bring #changes #come

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#i #i do #moral #non-violence #political