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
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 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
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
In my ideal world, it would be a soulful connection to the role because you've shared a lot of the same experiences… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life-just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to… — Johnny Hart Copy Share Image
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love… — Debashis Chatterjee Copy Share Image
Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We see facts with our eyes; we see ideas with our minds; we see ideals with our souls. Whatever we see with… — Glenn Clark Copy Share Image
Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image