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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.
Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.
I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.
Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
I know ideals aren't realities, but they do influence reality - social, legal, political, cultural.
The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
If the United States is to be a beacon of hope around the world, our actions have to match our ideals.
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!
The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
My mum never put those fashion ideals into the house. I didn't wear make-up, and I had my hair all frizzy.
The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.
Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again.
It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.