No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
You have to be uncompromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
The best part is just having a partner. There is no real worst part. I'm not going to say there's a worst… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism),… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The thing about branding is it isn't etched in stone. A brand is a mark or an image or a perception we… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
“I’d be damned if I listened to the same money-grubbing whores who'd sell their ideals and principles for their fifteen minutes of… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Everyone, everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off because there is worth and goodness in every life.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The difference between me and people like Murray Rothbard is that, though I want to know what my ideal is, I think… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being.… — Tsutomu Ohshima Copy Share Image
In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Models walking down the street are very rarely recognized as such. It is often the same as it was for me: models… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
“8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is -… — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other,… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I have but one thought in my heart for the young folk of the Church and that is that they be happy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image