A Quotes
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“An idea was forming in his mind. It was only rudimentary, but in the circumstances, it could be called a plan. He loathed the alien for attacking them, without any provocation. He hated the way it was smashing up his ship – and all of them – with hardly any effort or regard for life at all.
“How’s that message coming?”
“Umm – they must be jamming us, sir – I can’t get through.”
Source: Space Sucks!
“An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.”
“An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.”
“An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government”
Source: The Revolution: A Manifesto
“An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“An idea without action is like a song without vocal.”
“An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea.”
“An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.”
“An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.”
“An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.”
Source: Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
“An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.”
“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.”
“An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.”
“An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift”
“An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.”
“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
“An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.”
Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.”
Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel
“An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people, each striving to complement the other, to keep the commandments, and to do the will of the Lord ["Our Sacred Duty to Honor Woman," Ensign, May 1999).”
“An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.”
“An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.”
“An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper.”
“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”
“An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.”
“An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call
That bides the spheres become articulate.”
“An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”
Source: Pieces of Eight Pa
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”
Source: A Book of Burlesques
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.”
“An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.”
“An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.”
Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
“An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.”
“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.”
“An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.”
“An ideologue is one who places agenda above truth.”
“An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.”
“An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny.”
“An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.”
“An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.”
“An ideology that divides the world into those who are worth more and those who are worth less, into superior and inferior beings, does not have to reach the dimensions of the German genocide to be wrong.”
“An idiolect. That’s what he is, a language no one else alive in the world speaks. He is the last living speaker of himself. He’s been too blithe, he’d forgotten for a whole train journey, for almost a whole day, that he himself is dead as a disappeared grammar, a graveyard scatter of phonemes and morphemes.”
Source: Winter
“An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity”
“An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity, a physicist tries to make it simple, for an idiot anything the more complicated it is the more he will admire it, if you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it he's gonna think you're a god cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it. That's how they write journals in Academics, they try to make it so complicated people think you're a genius”
“An idiot person is more dangerous than a trained criminal”
“An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he can’t find anything worth doing.”