“Whatever ideals we would impress upon others we must first have realized in ourselves.” — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home. — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves... — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art. — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. — Robert C. Maynard Copy Share Image
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race. — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
My rule is you want someone whos got both feet on the ground. An ideal girlfriend might be someone who works in… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
Rip Van Winkle would be the ideal stock market investor: Rip could invest in the market before his nap and when he… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
Dynamic, rapidly expanding European monarchy seeks a can-do visionary to head up its South American divisions.Our ideal candidate will have at least… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
“Yet, with all his acuteness, it did not occur to him that Europe was not in the least to blame for his… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system,… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with… — Patrick Shade Copy Share Image
The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
