#ideal

Anything artistic should have some ambiguity to it. And, uh, you know, if there's only one way of interpreting it, it's probably closing in on propaganda. So, you know, it was just examining a world in which things are very desensitized, and it was sort of even asking the question of "what is peace?" really, because, you know, there is no static condition at any given time, that's just an illusion, and so peace must be more about the ideal of peace, and working towards it on a continual basis, and valuing the idea of peace. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#morals #peace #peacekeeper #propaganda

Ideals belong in a world only the wise man can understand," Marron said quietly. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#ideals #wisdom #wisdom-quote

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#always #force #good #i #i have learned

Our ideals are our better selves. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#better #ideals #our #selves

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. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#appetite #components #desire #does #ideal

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#day #dream #dreams #ideal #last

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#because #complete #ideal #just #life

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#even #fascinated #funnier #her #i

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#furniture #hours #i #i do #ideal

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#ideals #incredible #men #prepared #their