Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
~By Bennie Thompson ~
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
~By Michelangelo Antonioni ~
I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.
~By Larry Bird ~
I could not have done anymore, I had pushed myself to a limit that I had never touched before and that's definitely going to change you - than going out and doing what you do in practice every day.
~By Elvis Stojko ~
It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.
~By Christopher Darden ~
I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.
~By Raymond Floyd ~
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius.
~By Pablo de Sarasate ~
We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.
~By Kofi Annan ~
I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
~By Garry Shandling ~
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
~By William James ~
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
~By Kathy Acker ~
Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
~By Anna Louise Strong ~
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
~By Bill Watterson ~
Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
~By Elliot Richardson ~
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
~By Joseph Story ~
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
~By Amy Tan ~
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
~By Walter Koenig ~
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
~By Roger Nash Baldwin ~
Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.
~By Jerry Lee Lewis ~
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
~By Ansel Adams ~
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
~By Alain Prost ~
I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
~By Jim Lehrer ~
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
~By Plato ~
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
~By Grover Norquist ~
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
~By Laura Miller ~
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.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
~By Mark Twain ~
In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.
~By Ellen Willis ~
Practice every time you get a chance.
~By Bill Monroe ~
Practice makes permanent.
~By Bobby Robson ~
Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
~By Bodhidharma ~
What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.
~By Al Kaline ~
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
~By Charles Hodge ~
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
~By Geddy Lee ~
Everything is practice.
~By Pele ~
I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.
~By Minor White ~
So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.
~By Michael Emerson ~
They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.
~By Donald O'Connor ~
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
~By John Lubbock ~
We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.
~By Kim Campbell ~
Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.
~By Pete Sampras ~
It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
You've got to build a career and a practice.
~By Robin Day ~
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.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.
~By Christina Milian ~
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
~By Charles Simmons ~
Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
~By Periander ~
If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.
~By Greg Walden ~
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of "thuggery" practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.
~By Rufus Jones ~
I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.
~By William John Wills ~
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
~By Norah Jones ~
The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
~By Wayne Gretzky ~
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.
~By William Falconer ~
I take my son to school and then I drive 45 minutes to practice with my ABA team, the Florida Pit Bulls, from 10 to 1. In the afternoon, I have meetings.
~By Tim Hardaway ~
And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
~By Anton Seidl ~
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
~By Bruce Lee ~
That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.
~By Greg Norman ~
That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
~By Garth Brooks ~
The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice... the press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical.
~By Mark L. Campbell ~
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
~By Matthew Henry ~
Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.
~By Marc Morial ~
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
~By Walter Wager ~
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
~By Philip Larkin ~
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
~By John Adams ~
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
~By Joseph Wambaugh ~
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
~By Milarepa ~
If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.
~By Joe DiMaggio ~
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
~By Will Harvey ~
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
~By Sam Abell ~
I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
~By Allan Bloom ~
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
~By Michael Jordan ~
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
~By David Rockefeller ~
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
~By Kary Mullis ~
The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.
~By Nigel Mansell ~
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
~By Woody Allen ~
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