Quotes About Ideal

Goldilocks effect"—that everything is just right. (For the record, these three possible universes are known respectively as closed, open and flat.) Now

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

It has already been so several times in history. What was conceived as ideal and lofty became coarse and material. So Greece turned into Rome, so the Russian enlightenment turned into the Russian revolution.

If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?

They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.

The ideal aim of life is] to learn, to teach, to serve, to enjoy!

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

That" — Jacob took my hand in his and squeezed — "that would be ideal." He didn't let go. Neither did I.

in an ideal world, you'd be able to pick beef puddings from a beef pudding tree.

Take the truly dreadful, evil men of history, slaughterers of nations in the name of some twisted ideal. Of necessity you must allow them to have had Faith (which moves mountains, and without which mere works are in vain) and Hope, Loyalty, and Self-Sacrifice in the Name of the Cause, and practically every other noble and glorious characteristic you can possibly think of, except for the small matter of being in the right. . .

Nas really introduced the world and a lot of people to me - that was ideal as far as me first coming in.

In an ideal world, you raise a lot of money and then there is a downturn, before you start investing so you get better deals. But it doesn't always happen that way.

Cheyenne Jackson is just a dream.

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

You're not going to find the perfect candidate unless it's Jesus Christ.

We're never going to have a perfect candidate unless Jesus Christ is on the ballot.

I would love Jimmy Stewart to play my life story.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

Until his arrival I had been without a friend. There wasn't one boy in my class who I believed could live up to my romantic ideal of friendship, not one whom I really admired, for whom I would have been willing to die and who could have understood my demand for complete trust, loyalty and self-sacrifice.

A life is the gradual approach, through an infinite number of compromises, to a preconceived goal, to an ideal, a dream or vision which may never be completely realized

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal.

This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia . Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia.

It's just that sometimes we try to make whatever we're doing into whatever we imagine its ideal state to be. Sometimes we succeed and sometimes we fail. But in real action we transcend any notion of an idealized state. Even if we carry that idealized idea in our heads, it doesn't matter. We just do what we do.