Ideal Quotes - page 9

My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I dont know. (Chace Crawford)
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal. View quote
Charles Bronson
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too. View quote
Charles Van Doren
Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination. View quote
Charlie Simpson
I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc. View quote
Claire Messud
The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest. View quote
Cristina Saralegui
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. View quote
Daisy Bates
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. View quote
David Limbaugh
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. View quote
David Yates
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character. View quote
E. Stanley Jones
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. (Emily Post)
When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit. View quote
Eberhard Weber
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. View quote
Faith Baldwin
I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows. View quote
Guy Laliberte
In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost. View quote
Henry Ian Cusick
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. View quote
Herbert Croly
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. View quote
Herbert Croly
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal. View quote
Herbert Croly
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. View quote
Herbert Croly
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous. View quote
Hamish Linklater
My ideal summer day was reading on the porch. (Harold E. Varmus)
At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. View quote
Imelda Staunton
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. View quote
James Lane Allen
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission. View quote
Janet Echelman
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. View quote
Jeffrey Kluger