People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott FitzgeraldA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeTags: truth belief death ideals martyr
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
George S. Patton Jr.Tags: ideals
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May AlcottTags: goals dreams ideals aspirations
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman DouglasTags: ideals
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.
G.K. ChestertonTags: politics faith idealism ideals pragmatism
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: perception ideals expectations daughters fathers conforming
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: truth happiness nostalgia youth ideals real
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 ChandlerTags: politics reality ideals police
I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
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