Quotes About Ideal

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?

You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.

Back in the day, I was the first non-recovering doctor working in recovery. People would say, 'You can't do that! We need recovering guys in this.' But usually recovering doctors have a lot of baggage and so there's a certain amount of liability with a recovering doctor. But of course it can be ideal.

As a man, you think, 'Hey, man, I want to be like Bond or Tintin.'

Thus I, who set out to find my Ideal, came back rejoicing that I had lost my Shadow.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

It is a hard, humdrum existence, and only stolid cart horses like Marya Vasilyevna can bear it for a long time; lively, alert, impressionable people who talk about their calling and about serving the ideal are soon weary of it and give up the work.

All utopias are depressing because they leave no room for chance, for difference, for the 'miscellaneous'.

Miss Darracott, an intelligent girl, now perceived that in harboring for as much as an instant the notion of marrying a man who fell so lamentably short of the ideal lover she was an irreclaimable ninnyhammer. Ideal lovers might differ in certain respects, but in whatever mold they were cast, not one of them was so unhandsome as to make it extremely difficult for one not to giggle at their utterances. This hopelessly overgrown and unromantic idiot must be given a firm set-down.

In considering perfection initially there seems to be an axis along which there are two directions, one where we strive to be perfect and consequently live uncomfortably with our own and others imperfections, and another where we in some way reject or ignore the ideal of perfection and so we arguably live with a less directional moral compass. It is somewhat like seeing the glass half full or half empty.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight of the ideal image.

The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or as an ideal goal to reach.

One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes more mud, livestock, and relatives than most of us could tolerate nowadays.

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

What's it like where they live?" "It's everything you want it to be.

The Wiccan ideal of morality is simple: do what you want, as long as you harm none.

Castles in the air—they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. —HENRIK IBSEN (1828–1906), The Master Builder

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the same time.