You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,…

— Henry Adams

“What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old Republic had no correspondence to the…

— John Williams

Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

We fight to defend our democratic ideals.

— Lloyd Austin

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.…

— Stanley Milgram

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That…

— Dave Barry

If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true…

— Pope Benedict XVI

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by those who…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

— Thomas Carlyle

A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose.…

— Eliot Noyes