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Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.
— Dave Barry
As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The
— Walter Scott
My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
— Pamela Anderson
The ideal or the dream would be to arrive at a language that heals as much as it separates.
— Susan Sontag
The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow.
— Philip Jose Farmer
My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.
— Carlos Tevez
The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.
— Jesse Eisenberg
Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.
— Swami Vivekananda
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
The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it's one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn't exist.
— August Kleinzahler
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
— Sophie Swetchine
The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.
— David Brooks
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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 ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
— Alfred Hitchcock
In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.
— John Allen Fraser
Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.
— Robert Hughes
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
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good,And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.
— John Mark Reynolds
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
— Ayn Rand
But, as with most things in life, the ideal and the reality were two separate things.
— Brandon Sanderson
It was the ideal place where people call 'home.
— Erica Sehyun Song
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.
— Swami Vivekananda
Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
— Octave Feuillet
A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
— Bruce Forsyth
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
— E.B. White
The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.
— William Batchelder Greene
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
— Edward Abbey
To be normal is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful.
— C. G. Jung
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.
— Arsene Houssaye
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
My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I don't know.
— Chace Crawford
Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.
— Elisabeth Badinter
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
— G.K. Chesterton
If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand.
— Swami Vivekananda
Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
— Marvin Ammori
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
— Calvin Coolidge
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The fact is, there is only one body ideal in fashion, and most likely, you don't have it.
— Stacy London
Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.
— Camille Paglia
The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.
— Isamu Noguchi
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
Today's ideal worker is not the anonymous shift worker but the enlightened genius who never stops working.
— Miya Tokumitsu
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
That's the ideal meeting ... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
— Helen Oyeyemi
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
The actual well seen is ideal.
— Thomas Carlyle
The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learningevery teacher should know about it. — Daniel Goleman
Ideal is the one, who knows the self.
— Abhijit Naskar
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
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
— James A. Garfield
The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
— Maajid Nawaz
In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.
— Julia Gillard
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
— Oscar Wilde
The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.
— Shulamith Firestone
The thought flashed into her mind that she beheld the embodiment of her ideal. It was as instantly banished;
— Georgette Heyer
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.
— Agnes Meyer Driscoll
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
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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
