Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal… — John Dos Passos
America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because… — Ronald Reagan
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims… — George Steiner
The truth of actually working on a movie set is that you're in the midst of a logistical nightmare. There are so many things going… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him. — Mahatma Gandhi
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. — Mahatma Gandhi
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness… — Mahatma Gandhi
I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal. — Janeane Garofalo
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. — Sacha Guitry
In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody. — Tom Colicchio
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect. — Mason Cooley
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. — Calvin Coolidge
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. — Gustave Courbet
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply… — Aleister Crowley
I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high… — Louis C. K.
If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production. — Park Chan-wook
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer. — Drake
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to… — Marian Wright Edelman
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. — Albert Einstein
The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way. — Jesse Eisenberg
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. — George Eliot

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