I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'
I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.
Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.
A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.
I'm going to play the right way, I'm going to know my role, and I'm going to be who I am.
I hope I am allowed to say that the reason I am popular is because of the way I am, the way I race, and the way I talk. I am just the old-fashioned, reliable guy, and people always know I am after one thing: 'There is Jens. He will go in the breakaway.'
Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.