We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers. — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which… — Francis Ouimet Copy Share Image
Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . .… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free… — Arno Hintjens Copy Share Image
He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me,… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The Pledge of Allegiance was founded on ideals of religious freedom, and has been a valuable part of our national life for… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I need ideals that are so high above my existence that I must stretch myself into the headspace of mythical beasts and… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
We are committed to a world in which we keep America safe, but we recognize that our power doesn't just flow from… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in… — Guy Verhofstadt Copy Share Image
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
