I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion. — Euan Uglow Copy Share Image
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel I have more faith in European ideals than some of my British or French friends. For them, it's a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are… — Anwar Ibrahim Copy Share Image
There is a growing interest in Confucianism in China and other parts of the world. More and more followers of Confucianism are… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way. — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are… — Solon Copy Share Image
The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past. — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Our ideals resemble the stars, which illumintate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who,… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys… — Amos Alonzo Stagg Copy Share Image
The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale,… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image