Quotes About Ideal

I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

She is the most charming person in the world. That's all. I refuse to amplify. Excepting- she's perfect.

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I'm his ideal.

O amor romântico, portanto, é um caminho de desilusão. Só o não é quando a desilusão, aceite desde o princípio, decide variar de ideal constantemente, tecer constantemente, nas oficinas da alma, novos trajes, com que constantemente se renove o aspeto da criatura, por eles vestida

I'm convinced that in a perfect, civilized world there would be no other art but prose.

When a man reaches the age of lucidity, one of his main concerns is to actively and thoughtfully shape himself into the image and likeness of his ideal.

Ah! Querem uma luz melhor que a do Sol! Querem prados mais verdes do que estes! Querem flores mais belas do que estas que vejo! A mim este Sol, estes prados, estas flores, contentam-me. Mas, se acaso me descontentam, O que quero é um sol mais sol que o Sol, O que quero é prados mais prados que estes prados, O que quero é flores mais estas flores que estas flores — Tudo mais ideal do que é do mesmo modo e da mesma maneira!

To be an illustration seems to me the only ideal worthy of a contemporary woman.

To be a retired major seems to me ideal. Too bad it's not possible to have eternally been nothing but a retired major.

Faultless to a fault.

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

Her eyes like the ideal geography book: maps of pure nightmare. "The Ghost of Edna Lieberman

El Ojo seguía siendo una persona rara y sin embargo asequible, alguien que no imponía su presencia, alguien al que le podías decir adiós en cualquier momento de la noche y él solo te diría adiós, sin un reproche, sin un insulto, una especie de chileno ideal, estoico y mable, un ejemplar que nunca había abandonado mucho en Chile pero que solo allí se podía encontrar.

and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one.

and I want you all to remember—that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of—something he can work and fight for.

Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

Circumstances had tended to weed out many of those who might cause problems, but being human, there would be differences of opinion, for the ideal situation may exist but not ideal people. Wise I might not be, but I was wise enough to know that I myself would make mistakes. I was subject to anger, to sorrow Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I do not think to discouragement.

but being human, there would be differences of opinion, for the ideal situation may exist but not ideal people. Wise

To live for one's principles, at all costs, is a dangerous speculation; and the failure of an ideal, no matter how humane and noble, is harder for the world to forgive and forget than bank robbery or the grand swindles of corrupt politicians.