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Quotes About Ideal

But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.
~ A.S. King
I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe.
~ Jeremy Scott
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality
~ John Stuart Mill
An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.
~ Josephine Preston Peabody
Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal.
~ Sark
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
~ Yann Martel
While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
~ Debashis Chatterjee
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.
~ George Santayana
She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.
~ Mason Cooley
You can't ask people to give up personal, tangible comforts for some ethereal ideal. That's why communism failed. That's why all those primitive, hippie, "back to the land" communes failed. Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it's unsustainable.
~ Max Brooks
Is this what happens to utopias from the Freek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?
~ Maxine Kumin
Is this what happens to utopias from the Greek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?
~ Maxine Kumin
You were perfect.
~ Maya Banks
As a result of these high expectations surrounding a greatly valued ideal, health has become a salient metaphor for salvation, even for nonreligious Westerners.
~ Meredith B. McGuire
I did not want to hear the pain of my male partner because hearing it required that I surrender my investment in the patriarchal ideal of the male as protector of the wounded. If he was wounded, then how could he protect me? As
~ bell hooks
And to the slave, the master's way of life represents the ideal free lifestyle.
~ bell hooks
In an ideal world, both parties would desire to uphold the Constitution
~ Ben Carson
Acho que o Santo Graal é um sonho que os homens têm, um sonho de que é possível tornar o mundo perfeito. Se ele existisse, todos nós teríamos sabido que o sonho não pode se transformar em realidade.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Buddhists have always claimed the moral high ground and attempted, with more or less success, to maintain an exigent ideal of purity. Any spiritual practice is fated to confront the obstinate realities of human existence, however.
~ Bernard Faure
Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.
~ Bertrand Russell
In various ways, methods of approaching the mathematician's ideal were sought, and the resulting suggestions were the source of much that was mistaken in metaphysics and theory of knowledge.
~ Bertrand Russell
It must be admitted, however, that life in More's Utopia, as in most others, would be intolerably dull.
~ Bertrand Russell
You have, to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,—why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich