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Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity — Henry B. Eyring

The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is. — Oscar Wilde

You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. — Oscar Wilde

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world. — Herbert Spencer

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — Swami Vivekananda

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest. — Wallace Stevens

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist. — Neil Peart

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities. — Charles De Gaulle

We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland. — Maureen Reagan

People in AA are generally too fundamentally broken to see that they've turned their lives over to an empty concept and a failed ideal," he — Stephen King

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me. — Maggie Stiefvater

In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be. — Sophia Amoruso

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority. — William Butler Yeats

Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. — Craig Venter

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep. — Oscar Wilde

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free. — Alice Oswald

An ideal world inhabited by carefree people is nothing more than a utopia. — Eraldo Banovac

An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best. — Michael Oakeshott

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil. — D.H. Lawrence

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. — Woodrow Wilson

In an ideal world everyone would ask "Who am I?" every day, and since "I" is constantly shifting, each new day would bring a new answer. — Deepak Chopra

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

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness. — John Steinbeck

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest. — Fred Reed

Phelps, even at a young age, had a capacity for obsessiveness that made him an ideal athlete. Then again, all elite performers are obsessives. — Charles Duhigg

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter. — Darin Strauss

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. — Peter Singer

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. — Jorge Luis Borges

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. — Robert Anton Wilson

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. — Owen D. Young

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change. — Ameen Rihani

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal. — Herbert Croly

He who cannot find the way to HIS ideal, lives more frivolously and shamelessly than the man without an ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet. — Joel Fuhrman

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend. — Ahmad Jamal

It's a strange, surreal thing to watch an ideal crumble right in front of your eyes, and to know there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. — Jessi Kirby

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. — Stephen Jay Gould

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way. — Mitch Glazer

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. — Alastair Campbell

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North
Star, to serve as a guiding point. — Edward Abbey

In an ideal world, you'd be able to pick beef puddings from a beef pudding tree. — K.J. Parker

This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life. — Gustave Flaubert

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible. — Barbara Hambly

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good - the atavism of an older ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. — Aristotle.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality. — Aldous Huxley

So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society. — Aldous Huxley

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. — Tom Stoppard

Call me a skeptic, but I've always thought that it takes more than organic vegetables and talking circles to make an ideal society. Raven — Jennifer McMahon

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along. — Sarah Vowell

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all. — Solon

Perhaps I'm not their dead one back, but I'm something almost better to them; an ideal shaped by their minds. — Ray Bradbury

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. — H. H. Asquith

If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person — Oscar Wilde

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time. — Brian Hodge

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out. — Freya North

Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee. — A.J. Darkholme

Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be. — An Na

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal. — Charles Bronson

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. — Immanuel Kant

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. — Oscar Wilde

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. — Calvin Coolidge

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. — Agnes Meyer Driscoll

He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife. — Ljupka Cvetanova

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women. — Yves Saint-Laurent

As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world. — Steven D. Levitt

I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth. — Milton Berle

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal. — Rich Lowry

An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper. — E. O. Wilson

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. — Red Smith

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope. — Robert Kennedy

An ideal is but a reality whose meaner features are hidden by a gilding of enthusiasm. — Elizabeth Lodor Merchant

I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers. — Edmund Marlowe

But I was afraid I'd have to give up on an ideal explanation of her past life. Oh well, there didn't have to be one necessarily. — Saul Bellow

The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it. — Daniel Goleman

The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities. — Rick Perlstein

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. — Arthur Keith

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect. — August Bournonville

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.' — Henry Ian Cusick

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society. — John Dewey

I don't have an ideal type; I'm more of a love-at-first-sight guy. — Onew

The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such — Georges Bataille

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write. — Pontus Hulten

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. — Sacha Guitry

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

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do. — Garth Greenwell

This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist. — Milton Friedman

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,
for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,
truth is an ideal whole. — John Sterling

It had seemed to him the ideal expression of an adult relationship, to have someone with whom you could discuss the mechanics of a shared existence. — Hanya Yanagihara

I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable. — Oscar Wilde

In an ideal world I could do hellish things to her and she'd love it but in this world I came to save Perry. No one else seemed to give a shit. — Karina Halle

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models. — John Amaechi

Mundane, boring stories
not interesting ones
are the ideal in an operating room. — Wolf Pascoe

If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand. — Swami Vivekananda

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal. — Ljupka Cvetanova