Practise Quotes

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Cannot, Moment, Compromise

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

Deceive, Web, Weave

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster

Freedom, Eyes, Allowed

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
Michael Tippett

Music, Truth, Art

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
David Brainerd

Life, Daily, Sobriety

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.
Jello Biafra

Down, Through, Creative

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams

Politics, Whatever, Hatreds

They only babble who practise not reflection.
Edward Young

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
Johannes Tauler

God, Blessed, Nothing

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

Africa, White, Example

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
Mary Astell

Another, Himself, Rest

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
Beverly Cleary

Writing, Down, Word

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
Uma Thurman

Life, Mom, Spiritual

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
Baz Luhrmann

Great, Art, True

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Simon Callow

Religion, Human, Situation

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

Understand, Situation, Pressure

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
Edmund Waller

Love, Angels, Above

I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
Patrick Duffy

Work, Experience, Wife

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.
Jimmy Connors

Time, Different, Lives

The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.
Greg Rusedski

Confidence, Winning, Win

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
Pope Francis I

Politics, Good, Die

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.
Pierre Laval

Same, Policy, Germany

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
Lynn Davies

Yourself, Learn, Knowing

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?
Thomas Hooker

Men, Mind, Become

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