#idea

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal #democratic

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#among #duty #expressed #good #happy

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads. ↗

— Mark E. Smith

#got #haven #heads #idea #just

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#dreamed #dreams #i #idea #never

The idea of equal rights was in the air. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#equal #equal rights #idea #rights

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#conflict #could #defeated #germany #given

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting. ↗

— Mark Strong

#acting #bit #enjoy #i #idea

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal. ↗

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#ideal #tried #true

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything. ↗

— David Talbot

#assassinations #because #change #end #establishment

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from. ↗

— Amy Tan

#came #find #grateful #i #ideas