Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be,… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
It was the ideal of living in Eretz Yisrael that took me out of my house, out of my country and caused… — Nahmanides Copy Share Image
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
All the scenes that have to do with the fact that, at the end of the day, we're all engaged - hopefully… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person;… — Robert Audi Copy Share Image
The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
If you want to see where Trump is moving, look at what the United States neoliberals advised Russia to do after 1991,… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Another way to strengthen connection to intuition is to refuse to allow anyone to repress your vivid energies... that means your opinions,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is… — William James Copy Share Image
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
Anarchism as the name for an ideal total social form is a really complicated question. I have never found satisfying answers from… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
“But there are ideals which do not play hide-and-seek with our life; they slowly grow from seed to flower, from flower to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
I would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
You don't have to fit into a particular box. You fit into a box that you're comfortable in, and you'll attract people… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
