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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.
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.
Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.
I know ideals aren't realities, but they do influence reality - social, legal, political, cultural.
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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.
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
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.
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.
The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
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.
The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.
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.
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.
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.
If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
If somebody who appears to be a Hizmet sympathizer has been involved in an attempted coup, he betrays my ideals.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.
I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.
If a girl you're on a date with expresses ideals similar to those expressed by social justice bullies, end the date.
Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.
There's some basic ideals that we should be able to agree on as Americans: We don't tolerate violence on our streets.