A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.
~By David Talbot ~
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
~By Karl Marx ~
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
~By Ralph Bunche ~
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
~By Walt Disney ~
The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
~By Milton R. Sapirstein ~
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
~By Victor Hugo ~
But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.
~By Thomas Perry ~
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
~By Eric Brown ~
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
~By Robertson Davies ~
But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.
~By John Badham ~
As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
~By John Gray ~
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
~By Faith Baldwin ~
If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
~By Mercedes Lackey ~
I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.
~By Shuler Hensley ~
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.
~By Wim Wenders ~
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
~By Amanda Burton ~
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
~By Walker Percy ~
So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!
~By Guy Ritchie ~
Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.
~By Morley Safer ~
These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.
~By Rob Morrow ~
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
~By Josh Billings ~
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.
~By Antonio Banderas ~
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
~By Godfrey Harold Hardy ~
Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
~By Jessica Alba ~
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
~By Karel Capek ~
But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.
~By Juliette G. Low ~
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
~By Robert Walpole ~
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
~By Roger von Oech ~
We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.
~By Joseph Chilton Pearce ~
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
~By John Cage ~
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
~By Harold Ford ~
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
~By John Conyers ~
My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
~By Larry Wachowski ~
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
~By Elihu Root ~
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I love the idea of "the one" but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.
~By Matthew Perry ~
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
~By Barack Obama ~
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
~By Victor Hugo ~
It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
~By John Poindexter ~
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
~By Kim Gordon ~
There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.
~By Lusia Strus ~
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
~By Edward de Bono ~
Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.
~By John Walters ~
America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
~By Steve Buyer ~
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
~By Daniel Libeskind ~
One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.
~By Jim McKay ~
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
~By Eknath Easwaran ~
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
~By Brian Eno ~
Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
~By Bryn Terfel ~
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
~By Luis Barragan ~
I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
~By King Hussein I ~
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
~By Ian Hamilton Finlay ~
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
~By Ian Hunter ~
The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.
~By Stephen Wolfram ~
But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
~By Walter Pater ~
Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
This call for a new culture is not a new idea.
~By John Hutton ~
My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.
~By Solomon Burke ~
The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
~By Hailee Steinfeld ~
I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.
~By Gordon Getty ~
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
~By Owen D. Young ~
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
~By Todd Akin ~
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
Ideals are the worlds masters.
~By J. G. Holland ~
What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.
~By Paul Ryan ~
You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.
~By Christo ~
I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.
~By Fred Willard ~
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
~By Jill Robinson ~
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