From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the… — Heloise Copy Share Image
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand Copy Share Image
What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal'… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt,… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
When you idolize someone,emulate his example in your behaviour,action & character.This will reflect your commitment for high moral value. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
First, there's the job - where the goal is simply to earn a living and support your family. Then there's the career… — Robert Bella Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
