Direct Quote by John Galsworthy Download Open image “Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.” — John Galsworthy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Direct Distance Idealism Problem Proportion
Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us. — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path. — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“She stood and tried hard not to believe in God. It seemed mean and petty to have more belief in God when things were… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed,… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II” — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“That tendency...to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic.” — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“Here’s a sentence in a book I’m reading: ‘We belong, of course, to a generation that’s seen through things, seen how futile everything is,… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“James and the other eight children of 'Superior Dosset,' of whom there are still five alive, may be said to have represented Victorian England,… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. — Stanley Smith Stevens Copy Share Image
A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
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