OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul. — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past,… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
My sport has transformed my body to be powerful for a specific task over years of training and competition. The more tuned… — Lauren Fleshman Copy Share Image
“This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Biblically defined marriage is a man and a woman for life, and so anything different than that is not God's ideal whether… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models. — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me. — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image