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Ideal relationship is based on giving. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Ideal legislators do not vote their interests. -- John Rawls
the Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal ... -- Grace Aguilar
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. -- Victor Hugo
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination. -- George Santayana
What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image? -- Bucky Sinister
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself. -- Thomas Carlyle
The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul. -- William Batchelder Greene
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. -- Ayn Rand
The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18 -- Aristotle
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. -- Moses Finley
Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people. -- Phyllis Chesler
The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
To be an ideal guest, stay at home. -- E. W. Howe
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. -- Marquis de Sade
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. -- Swami Vivekananda
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. -- Karl Kraus
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. -- Booth Tarkington
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. -- Ellen Key
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. -- Mark Twain
The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer. -- Drake
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. -- Victor Hugo
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. -- Gustave Courbet
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. -- Benjamin E. Mays
The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic. -- Bill Gates
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. -- Faith Baldwin
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone. -- B. F. Skinner
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. -- Simone de Beauvoir
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character. -- E. Stanley Jones
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. -- Swami Vivekananda
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. -- James Allen
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. -- Jose Marti
To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business. -- Susan Cain
Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people considered ideal by most standards. For the entertainment business, I am not the body type of what is typically cast for television or movies. -- Alex Newell
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. -- Terry Pratchett
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. -- Judith Butler
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. -- Ernestine Rose
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. -- Nikola Tesla
My ideal weight is 205, actually. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. -- Craig Venter
My ideal weight is moobless. -- Albie Sachs
The ideal doctor is patient. -- Robert Haven Schauffler
Everything is ideal to its parent. -- Sophocles
The actual well seen is ideal. -- Thomas Carlyle
Idea lady is the ideal lady! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Make your ideal your new real. -- Derek Padula
We see but in dreams the ideal. -- Henri Cazalis
... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. -- Emma Goldman
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal. -- John Maynard Keynes
You need contradictions to make an ideal. -- Alex Shakar
Life without an ideal is spiritual death. -- Emma Goldman
My ideal travel companions are my family. -- Pharrell Williams
Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal -- William Lane Craig
Find the ideal in something not ideal. -- Robert Denning
Make the man within your living ideal. -- Karl G. Maeser
I don't believe in one ideal beauty. -- Zac Posen
I can't imagine a more ideal life. -- Al Jarreau
A romantic striving for an impossible ideal. -- Ron Chernow
Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man. -- Khem Veasna
That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia. -- James Joyce
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal. -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal. -- Esther Williams
Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. -- John Barton
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. -- Richard Lamm
That's my ideal day, time with my boys. -- Kenny G
I have a picture of an ideal consciousness. -- Henry Flynt
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere. -- Geoff Dyer
The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment. -- Lyman Abbott
Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation. -- Jimmy Carr
The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue. -- Erin Morgenstern
We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland. -- Maureen Reagan
The principle of realism means denial of the ideal. -- Gustave Courbet
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords. -- Bjork
Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal. -- Frans de Waal
Now is the time to lead your ideal life. -- Phil Cousineau
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. -- Jules Renard
The ideal companion in bed is a good book. -- Robertson Davies
My ideal summer day was reading on the porch. -- Harold E. Varmus
The ideal love affair should be conducted by post. -- George Bernard Shaw
The ideal is not believing in, but believing from. -- Eric Butterworth
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease. -- B. C. Forbes
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man. -- Alexander McQueen
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect. -- Mason Cooley
Make the wise man within you your living ideal. -- Karl G. Maeser
The ideal course of life is not always easy. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent. -- Emma Donoghue
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. -- Immanuel Kant
I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal. -- Janeane Garofalo
My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar. -- Alexander Ludwig
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant. -- Michael Jordan
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. -- Thomas de Quincey
The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line. -- Stirling Moss
The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man. -- Karl Kraus
Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual. -- Jean Paul
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. -- Voltaire
An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy. -- Allen Dulles
I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. -- George McGovern
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. -- Gustave Flaubert
The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction. -- Milton Sapirstein
James Cagney as a baby is not my ideal thing. -- John Krasinski
A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress. -- Bruce Forsyth
All great men are play actors of their own ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others. -- Aristotle
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found. -- Joan Rivers
A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get. -- Helen Rowland
My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist. -- Susie Bright
Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal. -- Wallace Stevens
The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle. -- Brian Tracy
It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once -- George Clooney
Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal. -- Karl Albrecht
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. -- Arthur Ashe

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