“A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The ideal day never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so. — Horatio Dresser Copy Share Image
Our privacy, our rights as citizens - these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal'… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say Bond is an ideal figure, no. The character has been performed in so many different ways that people go,… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
I'm realistic about it. It's been quite some years since I've worked full-time in that area, so I no longer have any… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may,… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For me, poetry has a strong link to my filmmaking. My films learn from my poetry. In poetry, you're free. You start… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
And let us never forget that in honoring our flag, we honor the American men and women who have courageously fought and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I… — Rozz Williams Copy Share Image
Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Life is very short. You have to know what is the single most important thing in your life; stay focused on the… — Khoo Swee Chiow Copy Share Image
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and… — William James Copy Share Image
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest. — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image