“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If Feingold does it, if he wins this race in this year, it will not be as just another Democratic senator. It… — John Harrison Nichols Copy Share Image
“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when… — Yuri Bezmenov Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
![“[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time…I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind…” quote by Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/anais-nin-288_balance_in-the-curious-way-that-my-idealism-has_127099.jpg)
![“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about…” quote by Yuri Bezmenov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d23/yuri-bezmenov-90074_aim-high_t-he-useful-idiots-the-leftists-who-are_897408.jpg)
