#practical

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#business #except #forgive #mind #own

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#his #house #lincoln #nothing #practically

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#how #however #itself #lose #matters

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living. ↗

— Harry Nilsson

#believe #despair #desperation #eliminate #gives

The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex you if you did her wrong, and from her aunts, who might boil up garden toads and slip them into your stew, and from her mother, who was so angry and protective she might just freeze you in time, ensuring that you were forever trapped on the green grass at the age of ten or eleven. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#age

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#back #being #bring #come #dream

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#beyond #created #death #delivery #devastated

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. ↗

— Hu Shih

#atheists #china #even #leaders #openly

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. ↗

— David Simon

#achieving #audience #go #gone #i

Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution. ↗

— Bob Taft

#give #people #practical #problem #solution