In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give… — Alice Miller 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
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only… — M. Carey Thomas Copy Share Image
So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change… — Katharine Jefferts Schori Copy Share Image
An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate. — Josephine Preston Peabody Copy Share Image
In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are… — Solon Copy Share Image
Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Everyone is imprisoned, not by four walls but with IDEALS and BELIEFS others have confined us to. — Rey Mellomida Copy Share Image
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“At the lowest level of the investment banking hierarchy are the analysts. To find this young talent, the I-banks send their manicured… — John Rolfe Copy Share Image
