Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life. — Klas Pontus Arnoldson 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
My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
“The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.” — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in going on offense, and I think Hillary Clinton is the ideal target on whom to go on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in… — James Ishmael Ford Copy Share Image
Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying?… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
“I love you, Dis." She didn't know if it was true, but she wanted it to be true. She wanted to love… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I believe that true beauty comes from inside you and that always shows through. I have no problem with whatever the next… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I… — Rozz Williams Copy Share Image
Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape… — Gerhard Zeiler Copy Share Image
Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell 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
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![“I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious…” quote by Rozz Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a8/rozz-williams-69290_coming-out_i-was-always-interested-in-music-i-felt_198807.jpg)
