Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Issues are important, yes, but issues come and go. America as an ideal is timeless. — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate. — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses. — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It takes a lot to motivate me to exercise but Physique 57 is the ideal workout, it's efficient, fun and targeted to… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you,… — Henri Copy Share Image
I'm getting the jobs that are a gift, and also the jobs that I do because I just love them. That's ideal,… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country. — Laisenia Qarase Copy Share Image
We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and… — Joshua Redman Copy Share Image
It was like everything that supported the relationship was coming from the outside. Judging by all the signs, we were a perfectly… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I would like to say is that to be truly American and represent American ideals you need to consider yourself a citizen… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal. — Stephanie Tourles Copy Share Image
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
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