Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
I had never stopped thinking about the ideal car… All I had to do was construct a plant to build it. — Ferruccio Lamborghini Copy Share Image
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357. — Mehdi Karroubi Copy Share Image
Though it's safe to say there are a whole lotta American gals who agree with the core ideals of feminism, they are… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or… — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There is a growing interest in Confucianism in China and other parts of the world. More and more followers of Confucianism are… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now… — Kato Copy Share Image
“One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose,… — James Maxton Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls. All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals. — Cliff Shaw Copy Share Image
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our privacy, our rights as citizens - these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The ideal day never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so. — Horatio Dresser Copy Share Image
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
