That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is… — Don Williams Copy Share Image
We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would… — Jessie Daniel Ames Copy Share Image
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
“a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
I wanted to do journalism, as I was an idealist. Then, in my second year of journalism, I realized that in real… — Nithya Menen Copy Share Image
Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything… — Saad Hariri Copy Share Image
“The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting… — Sasha Cagen 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
It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Do you ever think you're being an idealist? Do you ever wonder if you're holding out for something that doesn't exist? I'm… — Karyn Bosnak Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all… — Amos Oz 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
Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image