Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism,… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Another word on the subject of “the idealism of theology.” In fact, traditional theology has not only spoken of the scapegoat, but… — Scott Cowdell Copy Share Image
“Being Jewish did not compromise the humanitarian and universalist ideals of my close relatives who, having experienced persecution close hand, were more… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be,… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“What she tried to label honesty in his candour was probably only a cynical defiance of the laws of right and wrong.” — Saki Copy Share Image
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
One day s0meone asked me, what kind 0f pers0n d0 I need? I just smiled and said... s0meonE n0t str0ng... not st0ng… — Meggy Copy Share Image
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making… — Bono Copy Share Image
“He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world.… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young,… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
“It seems probable that he was trying to yoke the fractious horses of his dream, to straddle transcendental idealism and scientific empiricism,” — Randall Fuller Copy Share Image
The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
“By striving to see through the veil of our ordinary perceptions, we can come closer to understanding our profound relationship to all… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
