“So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.” — Kristen Heitzmann Copy Share Image
Our privacy, our rights as citizens - these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The ideal day never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so. — Horatio Dresser Copy Share Image
Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal. — Stephanie Tourles Copy Share Image
If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as… — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Why do the impulsive notions of a would-be do-gooder always translate into the ideals of the next civilization?” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls. All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct ways of being, an either-or choice, but rather they coexist in each person. And while we… — Tal Ben-Shahar Copy Share Image
The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can… — George Will Copy Share Image
The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses. — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast. — Lord Byron 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
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
