Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world… — Juliette Gordon Low Copy Share Image
Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt,… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Another way to strengthen connection to intuition is to refuse to allow anyone to repress your vivid energies... that means your opinions,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region. — Nicolas Maduro Copy Share Image
In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation,… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a… — Toni Braxton Copy Share Image
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand—that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Feeling comfortable in my body isn't entirely about beauty standards. It is not entirely about ideals. It's about how I feel in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
It is quite sad, to me, that that ideal, that vision and understanding [of American founding ], doesn't seem to be a… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how… — George Takei Copy Share Image
The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl… — Chace Crawford Copy Share Image
I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
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