Practical Realism Quotes

#1. We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.

Yasmin Mogahed

#2. A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Jane Austen

#3. Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

A.E. Samaan

#4. The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

John Shelby Spong

#5. Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are.

Haruki Murakami

#6. But emotion had come upon him after all. Not for fifty billion people. What in Time did he care for fifty billion people? There was just one. One person.

Isaac Asimov

#7. Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.

A.J. Darkholme

#8. They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.

Ransom Riggs

#9. If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense of humor, here and there.

Francesca Gregorini

#10. I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#11. I don't really mean what I'm saying.

David Foster

#12. Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the life of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives

Dallas Willard

#13. Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.

Louie Giglio

#14. I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know ... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.

Jack Whitehall

#15. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Edward Hopper

#16. It's remarkable, being alive.

Michael Cunningham

#17. Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

Ted Malloch

#18. I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.

Jenny Hval

#19. I fared excellent on the zombie apocalypse assessment; however, I did not do so well on the surviving without your love questionnaire.

Amanda Mosher