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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

As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The — Walter Scott

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. — Clay Aiken

The ideal or the dream would be to arrive at a language that heals as much as it separates. — Susan Sontag

My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano. — Carlos Tevez

Find the ideal in something not ideal. — Robert Denning

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes. — Dave Snowden

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change. — Misty Copeland

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too. — Charles Van Doren

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

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

The point is, Dean was not and is not nor will he ever be the ideal husband... he gives the minimum amount. — Deana Martin

This isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. You know? — Sarah Dessen

Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. — Craig Venter

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy

The XP philosophy is to start where you are now and move towards the ideal. From where you are now, could you improve a little bit? — Kent Beck

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal. — Esther Williams

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. — Sophie Swetchine

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

The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true. — David Brooks

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

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant. — Michael Jordan

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man. — Karl Kraus

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say. — Alfred Hitchcock

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude. — Robert Hughes

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

If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. — Lawrence Lessig

The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less. — Maajid Nawaz

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go. — Julia Gillard

Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval. — Elizabeth Kolbert

While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful ... — Jim Toomey

Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility. — Arthur C. Clarke

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. — William J. Mayo

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

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age. — Jennifer Aniston

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. — Simone De Beauvoir

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

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

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

The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance. — Shulamith Firestone

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. — Victor Hugo

The thought flashed into her mind that she beheld the embodiment of her ideal. It was as instantly banished; — Georgette Heyer

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

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. — Benjamin E. Mays

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

The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate. — Timothy Snyder

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height. — Sean Kingston

I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals. — Sheridan Smith

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity. — Bruno Schulz

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly. — Joseph Conrad

I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal. — Janeane Garofalo

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

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. — Eva Figes

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature. — Isamu Noguchi

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

blind love finds ideal beauty everywhere. — Anton Chekhov

Thirty minutes a day is ideal for language study. — William E. Linney

You've built up this idea about me, this ideal, but I'm not that person. I'm not perfect. I am far from perfect. I'm not worth such a beautiful story. — Stephanie Perkins

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

All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting. — Robin Sharma

The actual well seen is ideal. — Thomas Carlyle

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

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual. — Jean Paul

Ideal is the one, who knows the self. — Abhijit Naskar

Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting. — Yotam Ottolenghi

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

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal. — Rita Mae Brown

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. — E.B. White

My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper. — Nicki Minaj

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. — James A. Garfield

The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle. — Brian Tracy

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. — Mahatma Gandhi

Today's ideal worker is not the anonymous shift worker but the enlightened genius who never stops working. — Miya Tokumitsu

Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One who reaches his ideal has by so doing gone beyond it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. — Margaret Oliphant

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal. — Rich Lowry

That's the ideal meeting ... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. — Helen Oyeyemi

Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal. — Moliere

It's not the ideal situation to have two directors. It's just not the ideal thing. — Donna McKechnie

Now is the time to lead your ideal life. — Phil Cousineau

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal. — Andrew O'Hagan

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. — Anita Brookner

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

Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor. — Christopher Hitchens

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley

He was too handsome, too strong-willed, too wealthy, too daring, and otherwise not ideal. — Becky Wade

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

Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal. — David Byrne

My ideal prom date would have to be cute, funny, sweet, nice. — Kendall Jenner