Quotes of: Ideals Keyword

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

Paula Radcliffe

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Billy Corgan

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Andrew Dominik

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

Roger McGough

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

She alone is the happy woman who has learned to extract happiness, not from ideal conditions, but from the actual ones about her. The woman who has mastered the secret will not wait for ideal surroundings; she will not wait until next year, next deca...

Cheerfulness as a Life Power

Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination, and gained all her ideas on life, all her faith, all her ideals and aims and aspirations from books. Books stood betw...

The Emigrant

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they ar...

Of Human Bondage

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the...

An Ideal Husband

Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because it's optimistic, but because it can't take ideals seriously in the first place. The prevailing atti...

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find...

Calvin Coolidge

There is perhaps some hope to be derived from the fact that in most instances where an attempt to realize an ideal society gave birth to the ugliness and violence of a prolonged active mass movement the experiment was made on a vast scale and with a ...

Eric Hoffer

King of Qin: I have just come to a realization! This scroll by Broken Sword contains no secrets of his swordsmanship. What this reveals is his highest ideal. In the first state, man and sword become one and each other. Here, even a blade of grass can...

Hero

I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.

Breathing for Two

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Alfred de Vigny

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Lady Windermere's Fan

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Rem Koolhaas

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Rich Lowry