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
Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities. — Clarence H. Burns Copy Share Image
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age… — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
If the corrupt Jordanian monarchy were overthrown, it would be the ideal opportunity to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the West Bank… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
You have to be uncompromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as… — Harvey Penick Copy Share Image
We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
“Yet, with all his acuteness, it did not occur to him that Europe was not in the least to blame for his… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I… — Rozz Williams Copy Share Image
