The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector.… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do… — Horatio Dresser Copy Share Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“And when I fall in love,” I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and… — Donald James Copy Share Image
When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable.… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Living true to your ideal self may seem impossible but if you work hard on it, you can see it is achievable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Everybody understands that the basis of being a Christian is that everyone has fallen short of God's ideal. Everyone understands that. We… — Anna Holmes Copy Share Image
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet,… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
