It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
Bryant H. McGill

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.
James Forrestal

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Edsger Dijkstra

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

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.
Frank Knight

It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
Ian McDiarmid

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. Salinger

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.
Joe Moore

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
Robert Rainy

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

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
John Moody

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

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Kim Cattrall

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.
Mort Kondracke

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
Dennis Weaver

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.
Michael Novak

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Groucho Marx

Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
Benjamin Hoff

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
Andrew Greeley

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
Yitzhak Rabin