“ I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. Criss Jami
“ The real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent... Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“ So self-assured were they all by nature that it never occurred to me to doubt that their perfection was predetermined by forces I did not understand. They were all royalty. They were all gods. They we… Chelsey Philpot
“ Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human. Hugh MacLeod
“ I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me become a Communist, but what had attracted me to the movement more than anything, dazzled me, was t… Milan Kundera
“ The desire to experience new kinds of community led a number of thoughtful and idealistic people to reject the patterns of vocation, family life and religion with which they had grown up. Their attemp… Ian Breward
“ In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests. Alexandre Dumas
“ Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in sh… Eça de Queirós
“ Our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life Erich Maria Remarque
“ Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin.… Kazuo Ishiguro
“ I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of Go… Leslie Charteris
“ In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation. Sharon Salzberg
