The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so… — David Milne Copy Share Image
What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage?… — Jack McKeon Copy Share Image
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
On Memorial Day we come together as Americans to let these families and veterans know that they are not alone. We give… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I only do children's films now! I think when you go to LA some people feel you've defected a little bit and… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
The Ideal Consumer is someone who is constantly dissatisfies, constanly needs more and more products in order to feel better. — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Though it's safe to say there are a whole lotta American gals who agree with the core ideals of feminism, they are… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
The ideal is to put on shows where, if you go into the same space again, you don't remember ever having been… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go. — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
It's the people that ultimately are less talented or have less confidence in what they're doing that then try to micro-manage, which… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
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