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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

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

Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works. — Roger Tory Peterson

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

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. — James Russell Lowell

First, know thine own ideal - spiritual, mental and material; not as to what ye would have others do, but what ye would do for others. — Edgar Cayce

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

Goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves. — Deborah Harkness

Find the ideal in something not ideal. — Robert Denning

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers. — Rigoberto Gonzalez

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

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

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach. — Paul Fussell

Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly. — Pema Chodron

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

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. - G. K. CHESTERTON — Clare De Graaf

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The ideal adventurer needs ... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs ... — P.G. Wodehouse

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

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. — Steven Pressfield

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast. — Charles Baudelaire

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others. — Norman Angell

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. — Gustave Flaubert

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

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it. — Lenny Kravitz

Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything. — Andre Agassi

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

This is not, however, an ideal Universe, — Douglas Adams

Love in full life and length, not love ideal,
No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name,
But something better still, so very real ... — George Gordon Byron

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II. — Jeff Greene

Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery ... and then a meal. — Emmy Rossum

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

... It is so hard to accept that life is falling and landing and falling and landing. I agree it's not ideal. I agree — John Green

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him. — Mahatma Gandhi

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously. — Swami Vivekananda

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal ... The nude is not a 'genre' subject. — Isabel Bishop

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

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

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal. — Swami Vivekananda

The ideal course of life is not always easy. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself. — Steven Saylor

We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on. — Ezra Hall Gillett

miscellaneous guns to choose from. These guns were not ideal since they came from differing countries and — Richard Testrake

Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.

Those fighting to keep those people out - are. — Jon Stewart

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault. — Dag Hammarskjold

And remember, the very idea of getting free is again an ideal. Freedom is not an ideal, it is a by-product of accepting whosoever you are. — Osho

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. — Janet Erskine Stuart

Justice is like a great home cooked meal; it may not come at the ideal time, but when it does it is served and delicious. — Robert J. Braathe

Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. — Jeffrey Fry

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him. — Gary Shteyngart

Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork. — Jonathan Coleman

I get a kick out of not being ideal. I think it's awesome. That's entirely the point. And I think my creator is quite a character for letting that be. — CeeLo Green

Life is real, not ideal. — Heather Muzik

Despair at not reaching ideal perfection are among the reasons given. Again it is said — Nikolai Gogol

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness. — Benjamin N. Cardozo

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

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

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself. — William Blake

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day? — Alan Cohen

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

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. — Mignon McLaughlin

Yeah, I'm over forty, flighty, and fluffy- I'd say I'm not ideal bouncer material. — Jen Lancaster

We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving. — Paulo Coelho

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

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

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

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

The troop whose captain is (apparently) not managing it, but whose girls manage themselves under the Scout laws, is the ideal troop. — Girl Scouts Of The U.S.A.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal. — Erich Fromm

Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup. — Wylie Dufresne

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship
Dante
Petrarch
that sort of thing! — Ada Leverson

The ideal person is not the one with whom one can be happy, but the one without whom one can't be happy. - Anonymous — Danielle Steel

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

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

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain. — Samuel Hopkins Adams

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine. — Johnny Isakson

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

Life isn't always ideal, not for most people. — Caroline Kepnes

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

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not. — Alain Enthoven

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

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal. — Anna Pavlova

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. If — Steven Pressfield

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

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses - to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower. — Chris Anderson

It might not even be that great to marry your ideal. Probably, once you attained your ideal, you got bored and wanted another. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. — David Levithan