Ideal Quotes

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

Husband, Wife, Woman

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Carl Bernstein

Time, Stupid, Weird

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
John Updike

Marriage, End, Nothing

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
Luis Barragan

Serenity, Space, Magic

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
Laura Linney

Work, Great, Hope

My ideal weight is 205, actually.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actually, Weight

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

Insecurity, Exercise, Becoming

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
Alfred Loisy

God, Human, Reflection

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand

Life, Love, Happiness

Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.
Phil McGraw

School, Children, Tell

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Jean Rostand

Doubt, Same, Alas

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Jean Rostand

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Jules Renard

Calm, Exists, Sitting

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.
Jeffrey Kluger

Learned, Between, Since

While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
Theodore Bikel

Doubt, Said, Serious

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

End, College, Student

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus

Solitude, Avoid, Pick

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
Karl Rove

Marriage, Society, Important

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
Florence Welch

Job, Someone, Dance

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates

Woman, Her, Makes

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
Bjork

Vocal, Humidity, Seventy

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
Esther Williams

Life, Everything, Almost

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
James Lane Allen

Life, Mind, Heart

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
Phillips Brooks

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
William Ellery Channing

Made, Energy, Youth

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

Honor, Dangerous, Himself

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

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Adlai Stevenson

Dreams, Freedom, Car

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
Pierre de Coubertin

Happiness, Power, Thinking

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.
Grover Norquist

Guy, Citizen, Permit

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