The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul. Votes: 3
William Batchelder GreeneAmerica's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. Votes: 3
Ayn RandThe Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18 Votes: 3
AristotleIdeal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. Votes: 3
Moses FinleyIdeal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people. Votes: 3
Phyllis CheslerThe ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer. Votes: 2
DrakeThe ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. Votes: 2
Victor HugoWe mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity. Votes: 0
Robertson DaviesAn ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate. Votes: 0
Josephine Preston PeabodyWe are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? Votes: 0
Robert PlantIn the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. Votes: 0
Brooks AtkinsonI think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous. Votes: 0
William S. BurroughsMedicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain. Votes: 0
Samuel Hopkins AdamsBecause the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too. Votes: 0
Charles Van DorenThe ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal. Votes: 0
Yip ManMy ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Votes: 0
Grover NorquistThe road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinI suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. Votes: 0
Anita BrooknerWhen the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down. Votes: 0
Barbara TuchmanA perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. Votes: 0
Pir Vilayat Khanno one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family ... Votes: 0
Barbra StreisandA perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. Votes: 0
Vilayat Inayat KhanArt ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. Votes: 0
Alfred de VignyIf you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet. Votes: 0
Joel FuhrmanBut in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. Votes: 0
Gottfried LeibnizThere is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. Votes: 0
George SantayanaWoman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertIn the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerChristianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherDo not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. Votes: 0
Janet Erskine StuartThat's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. Votes: 0
Helen OyeyemiPossessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead. Votes: 0
Garrison KeillorThe ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher. Votes: 0
Kenzaburo OeArt is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal. Votes: 0
Calvin SeerveldAn ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression. Votes: 0
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiWe criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThe ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinThe ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. Votes: 0
Lillian B. RubinThe love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal. Votes: 0
Rafael SabatiniAhimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIn an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland. Votes: 0
Vanessa MaeI have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me. Votes: 0
Maggie StiefvaterAn Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. Votes: 0
Robert Anton WilsonThe cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending. Votes: 0
Bryan AppleyardChoice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized. Votes: 0
John DeweyIssues are important, yes, but issues come and go. America as an ideal is timeless. Votes: 0
Paul KengorThe American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible. Votes: 0
James A. BaldwinOf course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age. Votes: 0
Jennifer AnistonThose who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind. Votes: 0
Eric HofferSeeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes. Votes: 0
Dave SnowdenJesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity. Votes: 0
Johann Gottfried HerderIn an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant. Votes: 0
John MearsheimerPulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die. Votes: 0
Margaret MahyPoetry in the soul ennobles the insignificant. Something in us does yearn for the ideal. Votes: 0
RT LlizoSometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee. Votes: 0
A.J. DarkholmeFrance will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal. Votes: 0
Rich LowryI think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. Votes: 0
Luis BarraganImagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect. Votes: 0
Brian TracyI'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Votes: 0
Robert Anton WilsonThe ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together. Votes: 0
J. B. BuryUnder ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiA total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal. Votes: 0
Ted TurnerEvolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonHolmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better. Votes: 0
Maria KonnikovaDo not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerSetbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault. Votes: 0
Dag Hammarskjoldblind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream. Votes: 0
Louis MacNeiceIt is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinI see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth. Votes: 0
Isadora DuncanThe ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education. Votes: 0
Sai BabaSocialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. Votes: 0
Annie BesantSet up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. Votes: 0
Karl A. MenningerDecide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you. Votes: 0
Brian TracyParks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal. Votes: 0
Robert SmithsonPerfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiA man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it. Votes: 0
William Greenough Thayer SheddHistory, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. Votes: 0
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron RothschildUnless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life. Votes: 0
Orison Swett MardenToo often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence. Votes: 0
Mariella FrostrupOur Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. Votes: 0
Vance HavnerSet your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. Votes: 0
Wallace D. WattlesSocial democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past. Votes: 0
Tony JudtThe ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole. Votes: 0
Felix AdlerOne's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations. Votes: 0
Jane AddamsThe ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. Votes: 0
Alister MacKenzieUnconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyThe ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation. Votes: 0
Paulo Mendes da RochaIn an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. Votes: 0
David YatesAn ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyThe ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyThere's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist. Votes: 0
Milton FriedmanFriendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal. Votes: 0
Philibert Joseph RouxMy ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. Votes: 0
Tyler OakleyWhat we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. Votes: 0
Francis Herbert HedgeAll human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleBusted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination. Votes: 0
Charlie SimpsonThe higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal. Votes: 0
Fulton J. SheenWe are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority. Votes: 0
James HillmanParis is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write. Votes: 0
Pontus HultenHe who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Votes: 0
James AllenHumanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love. Votes: 0
Wilm HosenfeldDesire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror. Votes: 0
Octave MirbeauHumanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love. Votes: 0
Wladyslaw SzpilmanThe people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen. Votes: 0
James RedfieldOnce the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. Votes: 0
Agnes Meyer DriscollThe success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice. Votes: 0
Earl WarrenThe ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives. Votes: 0
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of FallodonCharles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. Votes: 0
Robert GottliebAfter people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person. Votes: 0
Ann AguirreIt is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. Votes: 0
Conan O'BrienYou have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy. Votes: 0
Rich LowryMy political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinLenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office. Votes: 0
Ludwig von MisesPhilosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. Votes: 0
Albert PikeThe ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. Votes: 0
AristotleCharacter is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonThe ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. Votes: 0
James A. GarfieldMy parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one. Votes: 0
Olivia WilliamsI'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. Votes: 0
Steve EricksonNot living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education Votes: 0
Sai BabaThe fact is, there is only one body ideal in fashion, and most likely, you don't have it. Votes: 0
Stacy LondonA war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer. Votes: 0
Anne FortierThe world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies. Votes: 0
Emily RatajkowskiNone of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaThe ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way. Votes: 0
Jesse EisenbergMy first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time. Votes: 0
Brian HodgeThe ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. Votes: 0
Margaret OliphantWith thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonUniversalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. Votes: 0
Arthur KeithArt is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal. Votes: 0
Joyce Carol OatesThere is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotWe have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauIf you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread. Votes: 0
Tyler BlackburnThe ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner Votes: 0
Italo CalvinoThe ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. Votes: 0
Italo CalvinoNo man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. Votes: 0
Daisy BatesEvery poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it. Votes: 0
Peter Meinke... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker. Votes: 0
Carolyn WellsYou know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home. Votes: 0
Gene HillIn an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. Votes: 0
Alastair CampbellIt was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. Votes: 0
Red SmithHope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest. Votes: 0
Arsene HoussayeThe idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheI have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have. Votes: 0
JewelMy ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire. Votes: 0
Logan LermanWhen all is said and done, the home is the ideal forum for teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0
Tad R. CallisterOur ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will. Votes: 0
Henry Cabot LodgeOur ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will. Votes: 0
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it. Votes: 0
Jesse JacksonIn an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after. Votes: 0
Thomas MarsMy goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height. Votes: 0
Sean KingstonThere is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment. Votes: 0
Francoise SaganMake sure that some aspects of your ideal day show up every day for you in business and in life. Votes: 0
David J. GreerSitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location. Votes: 0
Julian GreenJustice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. Votes: 0
Theodore ParkerIn an ideal world, I'd like to carry on acting, but I don't want it to interfere with my studies. Votes: 0
Ellie KendrickIn an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost. Votes: 0
Henry Ian CusickIt is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect. Votes: 0
August BournonvilleIf the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThe true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellIn an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.' Votes: 0
Henry Ian CusickThe goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts. Votes: 0
Gay HendricksThe ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerThe Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One. Votes: 0
Gerard Manley HopkinsAn ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. Votes: 0
Sacha GuitryI was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be. Votes: 0
Alexandra PotterGrande o pequeño, todo hombre es poeta si sabe ver el ideal, más allá de sus actos.
Henrik Johan IbsenNo puede conseguirse ningún progreso verdadero con el ideal de facilitar las cosas.
Hermann KeyserlingNuestra fuerza esta en nuestro ideal con nuestra pobreza, no en la riqueza sin ideales.
Ángel GanivetEl bello ideal de la caridad es que no hay dolores; el de la beneficencia, que no se vean
Concepción ArenalDas amerikanische Ideal hätte funktioniert, wenn wir nicht das Individuum geopfert hätten.
Nin, AnaïsCuando alguien cumple con su deber, no debe preguntársele en nombre de qué ideal lo cumple.
Jacinto BenaventeDie Gottesvorstellung der Menschen ist ihr ideal verwirklichtes Streben nach Vollkommenheit.
Adler, AlfredMit dem Ideal der absoluten Freiheit wird dasselbe Unwesen getrieben wie mit allem Absoluten.
Stirner, MaxEn el mundo moderno, la libertad es lo contrario de la realidad; pero es sin embargo su ideal.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonCuando os disculpáis o dais las gracias, lo ideal es hacerlo sin esperar a que los otros cambien.
Yoshinori NoguchiAn ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. Votes: 3 Booth Tarkington
I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'. Votes: 4 Samantha Bond
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Votes: 6 Mark Twain
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. Votes: 4 Aristotle
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. Votes: 2 Herbert Read
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. Votes: 2 Edward Abbey
The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher. Votes: 4 Kenzaburo Oe