Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good,… — Ellen Hopkins
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world,… — Nicholas Sparks
I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself… — W. Somerset Maugham
I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out. — Freya North
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked… — C.S. Lewis
Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are… — Bob Dylan
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best,… — George Santayana
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists… — Oscar Wilde
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might… — Paul Auster
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is… — Karl Marx
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that… — Hermann Hesse
The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the… — John Mortimer
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told… — Anne Lamott
There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you… — Isaac Marion
There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild… — Kerry Greenwood
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and… — Philip Yancey
In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly… — Miranda July
Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: Straight… — Tina Fey
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your… — Conan O'Brien
Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I hate meeting new people even new clients who intend to give me money. I try to be pleasant but I'm not very good at… — Cherie Priest
You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to… — Woody Allen
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? — Jeanette Winterson
I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. — Anita Brookner

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