#deals

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #deals




Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."


Henrik Ibsen


#foreign #ideals #lies #native #use

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#except #ideal #ideals #matter #nothing

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.


Leo Ornstein


#deals #down #exciting #going #i

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.


Brennan Manning


#ideal #ideals #old #old-age #soul

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.


Naomi Wolf


#constraints #controlled #ideals #material #much

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


#earnest #ideals #change

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.


John Berryman


#artists #beethoven #goya #literature #luck

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.


Ronald Reagan


#ideals #ideas #peace #resolve #values

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.


Mae West


#better #going #got #i #i see

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.


Libba Bray


#death #libba-bray #love #miss-moore #romantic-ideals