Top 1200 Ideal Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread.

My ideal place to be is on set, figuring out how to tell stories and entertain. That's where I'll usually be if you're looking for me.

National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.

I'm not the ideal pop star, not what you see on TV. I look like I could be your best friend.

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.

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

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

On an ideal Saturday night, I'll go to the New York City Ballet, where my friends play percussion.

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

At middleweight, I started to find an ideal weight for me. I face guys my size, my height, and with my physique.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg are the ideal guys to adapt 'The Disaster Artist.'

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

I'm committed to creating an ideal environment for commerce and letting the world know that Alabama is open for business.

Sometimes, we set ourselves up for this perfect ideal scenario and when it doesn't go that way, it's hard to deal with.

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home.

A leadership competition is not an ideal context for honest reflection. The aim is, after all, to win, not to learn and build.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

I'm not the ideal male. But when my daughter was born, I became more aware of the society she would grow in.

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Everybody is constantly struggling to maintain a healthy lifestyle and the ideal body, regardless of whether they're overweight.

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

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

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.