Choices Quote by Bill Watterson

“Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle…

— Bill Watterson

Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing…

— David Bezmozgis

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

— Vernon A. Walters

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists.…

— Frank Gehry

The world cares little for principles. They care for persons.

— Swami Vivekananda

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

— Emma Goldman

“It is quite as difficult to fit one's practice to one's precepts as to fit one's precepts to one's practice. Most people act in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

— Neil Kinnock

I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to…

— Otto von Bismarck

It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I am a very pragmatic person.

— Gloria Swanson