Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products,… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I'm a footballing romantic just like Johan Cruyff. We like football that is attractive, attacking and easy on the eye. When you… — Xavi Copy Share Image
I think we're going to move forward because I think at the end of all of this, everybody is going to ultimately… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I believe that true beauty comes from inside you and that always shows through. I have no problem with whatever the next… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale,… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . .… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me,… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“I need ideals that are so high above my existence that I must stretch myself into the headspace of mythical beasts and… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
The Pledge of Allegiance was founded on ideals of religious freedom, and has been a valuable part of our national life for… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
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