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Tag Name "Ideal" (1095)

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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Herbert Spencer
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An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy.
Allen Dulles
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade
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But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.
Alice Munro
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My rule is you want someone whos got both feet on the ground. An ideal girlfriend might be someone who works in the business and can understand what youre going through but is not an actor themselves - is willing to run lines with you but when you start acting crazy, they throw up their hands and take you for what you are and be accepting.
Wentworth Miller
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A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there.
Tyler Oakley
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Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, an ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says 'Yes' or 'No' to the challenge will determine his future.
Wilferd Peterson
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Now you, as a young person, may have no faith in your country, or in your church, or in your family. But you can still have faith in an ideal. If you have an ideal in front of you, you will never get lost on the journey of life. It is, after all, the journey that matters.
Edward Bloor
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Alfred de Vigny
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The ideal is to put on shows where, if you go into the same space again, you don't remember ever having been there before, because where you were was a space that only existed that one time, created by the music.
Will Oldham
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Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.
Alfred Adler
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I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.
Alexandra Potter
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Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines.
William Batchelder Greene
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I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately.
Frederick Lenz
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My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.
Alexander Ludwig
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No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
William Butler Yeats
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For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Mason Cooley
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge
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You need contradictions to make an ideal.
Alex Shakar
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal
William Ellery Channing
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What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.
Edward Villella
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