Ideals Quotes · Page 22

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

— Sarah Vowell

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

— Calvin Coolidge

A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

— Ted Turner

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

— Bertrand Russell

“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”

— John Scalzi

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

— Che Guevara

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

— Garrison Keillor

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If somebody who appears to be a Hizmet sympathizer has been involved in an attempted coup, he betrays my ideals.

— Fethullah Gulen

When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they - you will have 1,000 different opinions…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside]…

— Chris Hayes

The future that I see celebrates those types of like-minded ideals and ideas. I don't know what's coming, but I know that…

— J.H. Wyman

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

— John Doolittle

An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or…

— Sean Michael Wilson

We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder,…

— Tod Goldberg

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If…

— Jonathan Bowden

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which…

— Georg Brandes

Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we…

— Richard G. Scott

All art constantly aspires to the condition of music…In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the…

— Walter Pater

I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think…

— Amanda Peet

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,…

— Alan Watts

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of…

— Ayn Rand

Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with…

— Glen David Gold

I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape…

— Gerhard Zeiler

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and…

— Oscar Wilde

People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what…

— Kenny Smith

Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often…

— Wilferd Peterson

I would like to say is that to be truly American and represent American ideals you need to consider yourself a citizen…

— Chuck D

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Everyone is imprisoned, not by four walls but with IDEALS and BELIEFS others have confined us to.

— Rey Mellomida

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

— Joseph Plaskett

Boy, always remember that I may not be your precious friend but I can be your ideal girlfriend .

— Ivy Ban

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

— Steve Buyer

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

— Maggie Stiefvater

... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

— Max Ehrmann

My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything

— Robert Pattinson