I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things. — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
“Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish. — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
“My only excuse is that I have no reputation myself, and I am thereby well aware of its ephemeral value. Reputation is… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic,… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring'… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. When I was in… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
When you're young and idealistic, you don't care: you'll play to no one, in your bedroom - like kids with football -… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Young people are more likely to be idealistic and think that radical change is both necessary and possible. They may not yet… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up,… — Garrett Clayton Copy Share Image
Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
America is a very religious nation. Not a mono-religious nation because there are many different strands of belief, but there's something about… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's… — Marianne Williamson 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
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
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