“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.” — Shankar Lamichhane Copy Share Image
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator. — Paul LePaul Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“For we were, as I say, an idealistic generation for whom the question was not simply one of how well one practised… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of… — John W. Henry Copy Share Image
This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a… — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm idealistic so my life outlook is to never give up. Even if something seems absolutely impossible, I will run as hard… — Choi Minho Copy Share Image
Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will. — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I do think it's fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer. — Anthony J. D'Angelo Copy Share Image
“I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
