Quotes of: Ideal-man Keyword

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Bertrand Russell

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana

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

Garry Trudeau

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

Hugh Hefner

What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.

John Mark Reynolds

If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

Jane Krakowski

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Drew Goddard

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

Rachel Stevens

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

Samantha Fox

I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.

Willem Dafoe

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Steve Hackett

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.

Peter Singer

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Germaine Greer

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

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

Alastair Campbell

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

Ashley Rickards

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

Alfred North Whitehead

Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Tony Judt