Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong... — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable. — Jim Stengel Copy Share Image
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. — Janet Erskine Stuart 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
The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate. — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in… — William Fleming Copy Share Image
The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is… — Fatima Jinnah Copy Share Image
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics… — Jessica Lynch Copy Share Image
So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The internet we know is full of places, languages, territories, and it’s an alternate world in itself. The strange thing is that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Issues are important, yes, but issues come and go. America as an ideal is timeless. — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357. — Mehdi Karroubi Copy Share Image
