Lofty Ideals Quotes

#1. We are of a broad, Karamazovian nature
and this is what I am driving at
capable of containing all possible opposites and of contemplating both abysses at once, the abyss above us, an abyss of lofty ideals, and the abyss beneath us, and abyss of the lowest and foulest degradation.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.

Xi Jinping

#3. Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

Ervin Seale

#5. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world relevance to them.

Karen Marie Moning

#6. History is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, that is, of everyone. All our ideas, loves, plans, heroic ideals, all these lofty things are worthless.

Karel Capek

#7. Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

Kim Harrison

#8. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

Joshua Chamberlain

#9. So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

Libba Bray

#10. Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

John James Audubon

#11. Life is suffering. Until the great day of judgement, when peace and equanimity may be restored for those who are pure of heart and deed.

John Boyne

#12. These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

Ovid

#13. I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

Julia Kent

#14. The breath that I breathe is not mine
It is the breath of the universe
Breath of life

Ilchi Lee

#15. I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

Maureen Duffy

#16. it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished. If

Charles Dickens

#17. I just starred at him like he was trying to sell me the Sham-wow and the Slapchop for only $19.99

Kevin Hearne

#18. I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.

Ann Turner

#19. Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

Jonathan Haidt

#20. 'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of.

Roald Dahl

#21. The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.

Akhenaton

#22. A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.

Susanna Kearsley

#23. Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.

Elvis Presley