“She has no serious ideals at all-her sole aspiration seems to be to have a good time.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a… — Ami Ayalon Copy Share Image
I think in an ideal world, one would be able to do everything, however, we don't live in an ideal world. — Michael Graziadei Copy Share Image
Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity,… — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and… — Rick Carlisle Copy Share Image
An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength,… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are… — Mary C. Lamia Copy Share Image
We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
I know that Dad was an idol to millions who grew up loving his music and his ideals. But to me he… — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the… — David Lasser Copy Share Image
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image