Ideal Quotes

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.

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

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

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.

Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

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.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

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.

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

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

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

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

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.

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

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

We knew we?d never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.