I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“I love you, Dis." She didn't know if it was true, but she wanted it to be true. She wanted to love… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I believe that true beauty comes from inside you and that always shows through. I have no problem with whatever the next… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis… — Martine Batchelor Copy Share Image
And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent,… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
You put the picture of the ideal person in your head and then someone comes along and they don't fit that ideal… — Emily VanCamp Copy Share Image
You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it,… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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