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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man. -- Alexander McQueen
The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find. -- Britt Ekland
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. -- Aristotle
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 say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few. -- Jean Rostand
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others. -- Aristotle
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. -- Aristotle
My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper. -- Nicki Minaj
In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man. -- Herbert Spencer
Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people. -- Phyllis Chesler
There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment. -- Francoise Sagan
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time. -- Clare Boothe Luce
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man. -- Herbert Spencer
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission. -- Janet Echelman
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size-or even pint-size-Benjamin Franklins of today? -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist. -- Nicholas Sparks
Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous conclusions. -- Mary C. Ames
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe. -- Frances E. Willard
Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea. -- Nikola Tesla
The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim. -- Margaret Fuller
I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub. -- Madonna Ciccone
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says. -- Oscar Wilde
Make the man within your living ideal. -- Karl G. Maeser
... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. -- Emma Goldman
Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man. -- Khem Veasna
Make the wise man within you your living ideal. -- Karl G. Maeser
A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get. -- Helen Rowland
The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man. -- Karl Kraus
The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble. -- John Sterling
What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. -- Gustave Flaubert
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. -- Pir Vilayat Khan
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. -- Pir Vilayat Khan
The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal. -- Rafael Sabatini
Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of. -- Max Stirner
We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. -- Annie Besant
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it. -- William Greenough Thayer Shedd
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. -- Albert Einstein
None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress. -- Swami Vivekananda
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man. -- Henry David Thoreau
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. -- Daisy Bates
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God. -- Baal Shem Tov
I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world. -- George Edward Woodberry
Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. -- Theodore Parker
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. -- Robert C. Maynard
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. -- Eva Figes
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely. -- Liam Neeson
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. -- Edward Abbey
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. -- George Eliot
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. -- Walter Lippmann
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married. -- Helen Rowland
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility. -- Wyndham Lewis
Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life. -- John Lasseter
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another. -- Romain Rolland
Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself. -- William Blake
A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces. -- Elizabeth Bowen
I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. -- Susan Cain
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 is self-perfection. -- W. Somerset Maugham
If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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