Best Idealistic Sayings
96 Idealistic quotes by 87 unique authors
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Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it…
— Terry Eagleton
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It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.
— Tom DeLonge
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My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.
— Gordon Getty
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The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties... the Iranian…
— Shirin Ebadi
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I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what…
— Vanessa Kerry
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It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
— Martin Parr
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I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be…
— Sondre Lerche
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Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.
— Minnie Maddern Fiske
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We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith,…
— Miguel Serrano
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I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so…
— Steve Jobs
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Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go…
— Frank Gehry
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Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality…
— Ayn Rand
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I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or…
— Shahrukh Khan
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the…
— James Wolcott
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Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it,…
— Tom Wolfe
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I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who…
— Evgeny Morozov
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She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that…
— Michael Ondaatje
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But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe…
— Robert Fulghum
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some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic.…
— Paulo Freire
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