Impracticable Quotes

#1. I hold it to be impracticable"4 to try to define it or any right narrowly in a Bill of Rights.

Thom Hartmann

#2. Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.

Samuel Smiles

#3. Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

Thorstein Veblen

#5. A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

John Mortimer

#6. All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Edmund Burke

#7. To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

Susan Stebbing

#8. So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.

John F. Kennedy

#9. How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

Archimedes

#10. Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

Jane Swisshelm

#11. During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

Isaac Asimov

#12. Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating all the elements of the Republican party - including the impracticable, the Pharisees, the better-than-thou declaimers, the long-haired men and the short-haired women.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#13. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

#14. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Samuel Johnson

#15. It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.

Alexander Hamilton

#16. In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

William Hazlitt

#17. Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power.

VIRGIL PROFEANU

#18. We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to insist, to have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals, however often it may be the case that our ideals are impracticable.

Susan Stebbing

#19. Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.

Alexander Hamilton

#20. The tone of his remarks filled me with a burning desire to kick Mr. Horridge; but that being impracticable, I should certainly, if left to myself, have told him to go to the devil and forthwith walked out of the house.

R. Austin Freeman

#21. Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#22. It's impracticable to halt the exponential advancement of technology.

Ben Goertzel

#23. Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#24. In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

Richard Cobden

#25. When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.

Alexander Hamilton

#26. I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Miguel De Cervantes

#27. Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.

Mary Baker Eddy

#28. The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.

Tony Robbins

#29. We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we're all too eager to deceive ourselves and others, to discern a sacred image in a grilled cheese sandwich or find a divine warning in a comet

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#30. Even if she was Malachi's sister, he still wouldn't be discussing his business around her ass, and unbeknownst to everyone else, Nasir had security detail following her and her phones tapped.

Nako

#31. I mean, they were really high and pointy, and although I'm not clumsy, they were potentially lethal both to me and anyone in my general vicinity.

Myra McEntire

#32. The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!

T. B. Joshua

#33. In other words, how "missional" you are is largely determined by the extent to which your people model the life, activities, and words of Jesus.

Hugh Halter

#34. I think if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them

J.A. Redmerski