#practical

There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#close #come #driving #experience #handle

The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#back #cars #family #give #horrible

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#knees #practical #prayer #shoes #soles

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though. ↗

— Roger Tory Peterson

#america #bird #calls #every #i

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#liberal #merely #mind #nourishes #practical

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. ↗

— Peter Singer

#asks #casualties #ethical #good #hold

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

#experience #far #go #instruction #learned

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#anything #because #find #funny #happy

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country. ↗

— Rick Snyder

#country #detroit #matter #practical #sports