The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream? — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
“We are all seeking the unobtainable. Until we find it, we settle for life.” — Jack Freestone Copy Share Image
Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable. — Adamo Macri 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
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards. — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and… — Meredith Vieira Copy Share Image
For reason's measurements, which attain unto temporal things, do not attain unto things that are free from time-just as hearing does not… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“They're really into it, laughing and teasing each other, and I am looking at Pam and thinking once again how she is… — James Howe Copy Share Image
But I want you to know that you're a beautiful girl, far more beautiful than I ever was at your age, and… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
I could stand to lose 10 or 15 pounds, but honestly, I'm happy the way I am. I feel comfortable with it.… — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Often beauty is disguised by appearance just as music can be by sound, the dreaming wish by the waking wish until there's… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
Girls my age dress so much raunchier than I'd ever imagine myself dressing. I understand that I'm a role model, though, and… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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