#practise

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! ↗

— Walter Scott

#first #practise #tangled #weave #web

Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#practise-vs-preach #insight

They only babble who practise not reflection. ↗

— Edward Young

#only #practise #reflection #who

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under. ↗

— Alan Shearer

#i #i always #never #penalties #people

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. ↗

— John Sladek

#background #call #halt #handling #i

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#chinese #citizens #constitution #dangerous #express

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#germany #intelligence #policy #practise #same

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#colonial #criminal #domination #evolve #example