#ideal

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#art #conception #contemporary #decorative #deny

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#compassion #congress #courage #ever #halls

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#dreams #having #ideals #might #stop

I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with. ↗

— Picabo Street

#cross #doing #family #fit #i

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement. ↗

— David Axelrod

#barack #barack obama #communications #country #disseminate

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#always #cannot #except #ideal #incessant

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#been #believe #cuts #explore #fog

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#export #forth #freedom #greatest #ideals

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#his #idealist #materialist #tiptoe #walks

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#division #i #idealists #never #realists