The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that… — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this,… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
We are not beautiful because we fit the popular ideal of beauty, and we are not ugly or unattractive because we don’t… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
Everybody understands that the basis of being a Christian is that everyone has fallen short of God's ideal. Everyone understands that. We… — Anna Holmes Copy Share Image
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale,… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person;… — Robert Audi Copy Share Image
A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
Ideal Love, stepped down to the level of the practical, day-to-day life, must mean the service of each to all within his… — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“Ideals are like an image of reality at a given time from a given reality. Just like no photograph of a person… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products,… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us… — Caitlin Stasey Copy Share Image
Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
