Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and… — Ingmar Bergman
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal,… — Charles Dickens
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice. — Earl Warren
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last… — Paul Klee
Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self. — Susan Griffin
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us". — Swami Vivekananda
A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but… — Harold Jeffreys
I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise… — Picabo Street
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were… — Leonard Boswell
Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal. — Stephanie Tourles
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the… — Richard Wilbur
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just… — Josiah Royce
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But… — Gaston Bachelard
An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One… — Milton Friedman
Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes. — Dave Snowden
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only… — Richard P. Feynman
My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated. — Candice Swanepoel
[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic -… — Winston Churchill
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence — Jack Kerouac
In general, an ideal partner is (a) open and nondefensive, (b) honest and nonduplicitous, (c) affectionate and easy-going, (d) mentally and physically healthy, (e) independent… — Robert W. Firestone
There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic… — Victor Hugo
The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline.… — David E. Kelley
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had… — Marie Corelli

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