Practiced

Famous quotes containing the word practiced:

    I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods of dress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    The violent, neat and practiced skill
    Was all he loved and all he learned;
    When he was hit, his body turned
    To clumsy dirt before it fell.

    And what to say of him, God knows.
    Such violence. And such repose.
    Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.
    Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)