Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong... — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Never choose between your heart or brain. Neither instincts nor anything perfectly planned is always right. Follow what heart says but let… — The Idealist Merchant Copy Share Image
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Never lose your fierce idealism. Let it be tempered by pragmatism, humility, and a willingness to learn, but never let anyone tell… — Emi Kihslinger Copy Share Image
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The "compleat diplomat" of the future should remain cognizant of realism's emphasis on the inescapable role of power, keep liberalism's awareness of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are… — Mary C. Lamia Copy Share Image
“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home,… — James Jones Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
