I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson 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 has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life,… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Service to mankind must ever be the ideal of this great university. It was established in the name of Jesus Christ, who… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it. — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
If we hold onto our American ideals, we've got to make sure that all opportunities are available - including access to the… — David L. Cohen Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals.… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing. — Robert Harbison Copy Share Image
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family… — Ira Reiss Copy Share Image
The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand—that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
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