Top 121 Impractical Quotes & Sayings

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

I'm not sure it's possible to stay in Hawaii. It's kind of impractical.

Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical.

I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.

The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

We met in high school, all in the same grade, and started doing improv and sketch together. That was almost 20 years ago at this point, and that's our identity outside of 'Impractical Jokers.'

Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

I love 'The Impractical Jokers.' I watch them all the time.

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

There's no place for impractical dreamers around here.

Something impractical cannot be beautiful.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

We all want a non-fragmented solution, but the utopian version of a single blockchain to rule them all is undesirable and impractical.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

It is precisely because I believe it is not possible to neatly separate the sexual from other sorts of relations that I find the movement to bar the sexual from pedagogy not only dangerous but supremely impractical.

I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.

Wealthy individuals are known for spending their money wisely. This means living below their means by skipping the McMansion and impractical luxury vehicles.

I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.

It is both impractical and very harmful for each state to enact differing and conflicting privacy burdens on broadband providers, many of which serve multiple states, if not the entire country.

The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

Do the IMPRACTICAL so that God can do the IMPOSSIBLE!

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

The lesson is clear: As impractical as it may sound, the safest and most secure way to lead your life is to follow your dream.

[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.

The only procedure under the Constitution to deal with judicial misconduct is impeachment, which needs to be initiated by at least 100 MPs and has been found to be totally impractical and virtually useless.

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

One simply runs out of energy as you get old. One doesn't take on new tasks of exploration because it takes an extended period of intense thinking and working on it, and that becomes impractical.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.

It seems to me that a 9/11-style attack is impractical.

Throwing open our borders to everyone who wants to enter is impractical and could cause grave harm to our nation and the American people.

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.

I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become the kind of crap you buy at airports!' It was exciting, but it was not a fantasy I'd ever had.