I think what you are supposed to be when you are young is…

In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'

— Gillian Jacobs

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't…

— John Mackey

When you're young and idealistic, you don't care: you'll play to no one, in your bedroom - like kids with football - you'll play…

— Pete Doherty

You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always…

— Lisa Kleypas

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

— Twyla Tharp

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all…

— Barbara Cartland

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their…

— William Irwin Thompson

“I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality…

— Jack Kornfield

The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able to follow…

— Kofi Annan

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

— Albert Einstein

I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do…

— Meryl Streep

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving…

— James Wolcott

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz