Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher… — Gene Stratton-Porter
The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal. — Fulton J. Sheen
The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter… — Elif Safak
I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best… — Sarah Dessen
I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall,… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand… — Emma Goldman
Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men… — Christopher Isherwood
I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He… — Chris Cleave
Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components,… — Umberto Eco
Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the fire of ten thousand suns. So… — Jen Lancaster
HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so WHY push to attain an ideal state of… — Ellen Hopkins
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human… — John Gresham Machen
The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor. — Christopher Hitchens
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all,… — Joseph Heller
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love… — Gary Shteyngart
Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of… — Terry Pratchett
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot… — Mahatma Gandhi
Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not… — Susan Cain
It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the… — Gene Wolfe
It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened.… — Timothy Keller
I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be. — Alexandra Potter
Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this… — Anne Mallory

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