Issues are important, yes, but issues come and go. America as an ideal is timeless. — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate. — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable. — Jim Stengel Copy Share Image
Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong... — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can… — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They… — David Price Copy Share Image
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the… — Douglas MacArthur 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
As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice"… — Stephen Holden Copy Share Image
Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
