In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
Marcel Proust

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Benito Mussolini

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
Wayne Gretzky

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Mia Hamm

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.
Gloria Steinem

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
Barney Frank

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.
Payne Stewart

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
Casey Stengel

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
Malcom X

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
Hank Aaron

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
Roald Dahl

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck