#idealist

We're all idealistic when young. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#young

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#best #could #doing #i #idealistic

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#around #beautiful #completely #degrading #destroy

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#certain #certain point #go #healthy #hold

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#always #bad #come #everything #father

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#contradiction #darwin #darwinism #deeper #development

I'm an idealist without illusions. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#idealist #illusions #without

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#humanity #i #idealistic #progressive #science

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests. ↗

— Charley Reese

#american #been #british #driven #economic