“ Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting… John Fowles
“ When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities. Moutasem Algharati
“ And when I fall in love, I began, I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds… V.C. Andrews
“ I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to w… C. JoyBell C.
“ The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past. It is propelled towards the coming time; it is, in the exact words… G.K. Chesterton
“ You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything resul… David Foster Wallace
“ Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books. Hemant Mehta
“ Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. G.K. Chesterton
“ In a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxurie… Orhan Pamuk
“ Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard. Guy de Maupassant
“ They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was… G. K. Chesterton
“ It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean. Virginia Petrucci
“ Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes. Mike Klepper
“ He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living sp… Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“ Es ist viel flacher, wenn du für etwas Gutes und Ideales kämpfst und nun meinst, du müssest es auch erreichen. Sind denn Ideale zum Erreichen da? Leben wir denn, wir Menschen, um den Tod abzuschaffen?… Hermann Hesse
“ They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals! Margaret Atwood
