To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes… — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
“Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. — William Hague Copy Share Image
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
