Quotes About Ideals And Reality

#1. The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

Richie Norton

#2. When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.

Erin Gray

#3. If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives.

Susan Douglas

#4. At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.

Clarence H. Burns

#5. The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

Harold Ford Jr.

#6. Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.

Robert Reich

#7. Lost my ideals in that tunnel of time.

Jim Croce

#8. I will gladly trade his freedom for a father. Have you one to give me?

George R R Martin

#9. Think of learning as storing up supplies you may need for a harsh winter.

Shannon Hale

#10. No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you've ever imagined. That's what being mindful and living in the present means.

Lidiya K.

#11. Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get ...

Raymond Chandler

#12. A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.

Revilo P. Oliver

#13. ...a time when the plans and ideals that you've been dreaming of for years come up against reality. you graduate from college and have to find your way in the real world. you learn that there is no perfect job. there is no perfect relationship.

Christine Hassler

#14. I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

S.E. Hinton

#15. Their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be

Donna Tartt

#16. One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

Milton S. Hershey

#17. Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.

Samuel P. Huntington

#18. The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a world where America lives up to its ideals, and resolves the contradiction between reality and principles.

Ronald Takaki

#19. The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive.

William Gaddis

#20. President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

Pierre Salinger

#21. Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

Franz Grillparzer

#22. The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable.

Julian Huxley

#23. You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

Leon Blum

#24. The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.

George Santayana

#25. Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Oscar Wilde

#26. I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.

Tony Abbott

#27. The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

Jackson Browne

#28. How do you know you can't do it if you haven't tried it yet?

Lynda Panther

#29. The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Edward I. Koch