A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
Hjalmar Branting

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
Pir Vilayat Khan

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
Emily Greene Balch

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
Oliver Stone

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
Derek Jarman

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
John Ruskin

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

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

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Voltaire

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Booth Tarkington

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

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
Ben Nicholson

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Alfred de Vigny

At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience.
Katie Couric

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

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
G. B. Trudeau