Ideals Quotes · Page 23

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

— Erich Maria Remarque

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

— Lillian B. Rubin

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

— Garet Garrett

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

— Ayn Rand

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.

— Jim Stengel

Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

— Dag Hammarskjold

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

— Karl Shapiro

The ideal is to put on shows where, if you go into the same space again, you don't remember ever having been…

— Will Oldham

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake,…

— Swami Vivekananda

[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian…

— Gottfried Leibniz

In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.

— Julia Gillard

It's the people that ultimately are less talented or have less confidence in what they're doing that then try to micro-manage, which…

— Ari Graynor

I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of…

— Lauryn Hill

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a…

— Henry B. Eyring

The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

In a nutshell: if freedom visualised by the Enlightenment and demanded/promised by Marx was made to the measure of the ideal producer;…

— Zygmunt Bauman

We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to…

— Walter Pater

Here in the United States our Muslim citizens are making many contributions in business, science and law, medicine and education, and in…

— George W. Bush

We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to…

— David Kaczynski

Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place…

— H. E Davey

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic…

— Boris Trajkovski

I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Sometimes I feel I have more faith in European ideals than some of my British or French friends. For them, it's a…

— Elif Safak

To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth…

— Walt Disney

What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form…

— George Washington

The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to…

— Hilaire Belloc

What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC…

— Mark Waid

So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and…

— Willa Cather

I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics…

— Jessica Lynch

In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and…

— Bell Hooks

“The internet we know is full of places, languages, territories, and it’s an alternate world in itself. The strange thing is that,…

— Anonymous

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

— Mae West

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

— Janet Erskine Stuart

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

— Noam Chomsky

The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.

— Robert Benchley

Issues are important, yes, but issues come and go. America as an ideal is timeless.

— Paul Kengor

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

— Joseph Nye

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

— Noam Chomsky

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

— Anne Frank