... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the… — Heloise Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock… — Kamisese Mara Copy Share Image
People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity,… — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
“I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
That's what American values and ideals are all about: We can come here and be different and celebrate different faiths and be… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal... — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ... — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do… — Robert Collyer Copy Share Image
The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is to be naked, which is why I always live in remote areas. My ideal is to wake in… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
