A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac. — James Siegel Copy Share Image
“Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Clock teaches us an important lesson of our lives... No it's NOT just Time-Keeping but Keep Going. No matter what the time… — The Idealist Merchant Copy Share Image
“What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism.… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense.… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t say was: I know you too well. You live your life idealistically. You think it’s possible to opt out… — Ling Ma Copy Share Image
“People are creators. But I doubt that many realize this. We are not meant to go out into the world and find… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists… — John Walford Copy Share Image
“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something. — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.” — A.J. Darkholme Copy Share Image
Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing. — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image