All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and… — Nadya Suleman Copy Share Image
An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life. — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
We all have our individual romantic or idealistic ideas. To get information that masturbation is our basic form of sex is hard,… — Betty Dodson 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
It's really idealistic and hippy-dippy but I do believe film is a really powerful tool for reaching people. — Rachel House 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
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
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
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
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
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
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
“Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences : be they physical. social, intellectual or mental, those who live in them always nurture… — Tariq Ramadan 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
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
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
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic… — Charley Reese 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
“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
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
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
In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
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
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
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way… — Thom Yorke 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
I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...” — John Geddes 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
In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say,… — Kehinde Wiley 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
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image