Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.
She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive
Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.
Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
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.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
