Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. — Mae West 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
Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable. — Jim Stengel Copy Share Image
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no… — Salvador Minuchin Copy Share Image
In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery…… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will… — Paul Fussell 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
In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and… — Vaclav Havel 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
If somebody who appears to be a Hizmet sympathizer has been involved in an attempted coup, he betrays my ideals. — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
The United Nations has long recognised that the imagination, ideals and energies of young men and women are vital for the continuing… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The way we move within time is a kind of dance. We are always keeping time within one rhythm or another. Music,… — Mel Weitsman Copy Share Image
My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as… — Harvey Penick Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics… — Jessica Lynch Copy Share Image
So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The internet we know is full of places, languages, territories, and it’s an alternate world in itself. The strange thing is that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty. — Robert Benchley 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
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
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest. — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
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