#practical

If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#history #practicality #tudors #men

We need a full coven...nine women...twelve's better. Do you have any friends?" Characters, Aunt Jett and Aunt Frances to character, Sally Owens, from the movie "Practical Magic". ↗

— Robin Swicord

#practical-magic-the-movie #movies

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists. ↗

— David Brin

#environmentalism #environmentalists #logistics #people #practicality

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#been #clothing #course #except #fashions

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#back #basis #community #different #economically

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency. ↗

— John S. Bell

#believe #counter #currently #difficult #efficiency

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#barely #bringing #case #countries #engaged

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#city #country #every #first #given