#idealists

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#back #being #bring #come #dream

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#co-dependence #divorce #idealism #idealists #marriage

It is interesting that we call something good a “dream,” but being called a “dreamer” is somewhat of a putdown. Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world. If you are a secret dreamer, it’s your time to announce yourself. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#dreamers #idealist #idealists #reality #secret

Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit. ↗

— John Lanchester

#families #free-spirits #idealists #laziness #wanderers

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic... ↗

— Bob Woodward

#bob-woodward #idealists #leadership #obama-s-wars #president

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#come #downstairs #gutter #idealists #into

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#being #communist #even #fact #having

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#children #even #idealists #see #sometimes

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive. ↗

— John Zorn

#idealists #society #survive #will

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#caution #enough #enriched #foolish #idealists