I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. — William Hague Copy Share Image
Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us. — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you? — James Carville Copy Share Image
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place. — Sung Kang Copy Share Image
I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Clock teaches us an important lesson of our lives... No it's NOT just Time-Keeping but Keep Going. No matter what the time… — The Idealist Merchant Copy Share Image
My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
“What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism.… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“no leaders who are so thoroughly enlightened. Thus, what Plato offers is not realism; it is idealism of the first order.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“She has the flames of passion emanating from deep within her soul. She has the embers of idealism burning in her heart!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Theodore Rex. Roosevelt was driven by ambition, idealism and vanity. As his daughter famously remarked: “My father always wanted to be the… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
“The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting… — Aldous Huxley 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
“She gasped. “You know what your problem is? You don’t take yourself… or anything… seriously enough!” She sat rigidly, her teeth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t say was: I know you too well. You live your life idealistically. You think it’s possible to opt out… — Ling Ma Copy Share Image
“People are creators. But I doubt that many realize this. We are not meant to go out into the world and find… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image