Ideal Quotes

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions.

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.