Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody… — James Jones Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am. — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I wince at her use of the word "human." I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I think the folks who joined Jim Jones's church did so because they truly believed in his stated ideals of racial equality… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
I'm an idealist. I'll die an idealist in the theater. I'll stick to my convictions if I starve to death. — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier… — Peter Dreier Copy Share Image
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
