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
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
Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable. — Jim Stengel Copy Share Image
Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong... — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death… — William Empson Copy Share Image
The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals,… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are only forerunners. Twenty or even a hundred years may pass before the National Socialist idea is victorious; those who… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Honestly, people told me to. It was weird, I graduated from school, I never thought I'd live in L.A. and I always… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
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
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
“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
Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose,… — James Maxton 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
