Ideals Quotes - Page 33

• It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Community, Church, Would Be

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• "The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good book has remained unwritten, or, perhaps, being written, has remained unpublished, because there floated before the mind's eye of the author, or possible author, the ideal of a better or a best, which has put him out of all conceit with his good.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

  Ernst Mach

  Mean, Perfect, Tasks

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Littles, Action, Creation

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• Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Home, Imperfect World, Normal

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.9, 谷月社

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• Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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• I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

  Rosie Perez

  Stars, Latin, Trying

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• I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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• When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  People, Giving, Charity

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “Beasts and Super-Beasts”, p.156, Read Books Ltd

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• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  Carl Bernstein

  Stupid, Culture, Firsts

  "An A-Z of Cultural Terms". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.

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• The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Fashion, Attention, Way

  Theodore Zeldin (1993). “A History of French Passions 1848-1945: Intellect, Taste, and Anxiety”, p.441, Oxford University Press

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• When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.

  Betty Ford

  Marriage, Couple, Talking

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books

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• Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

  Arthur Keith

  Christian, Ancient, Universalism

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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

  Alastair Campbell

  Stars, Media, World

  "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Real, Vision, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Writing, Mean, Issues

  "Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent - and also ditzy and klutzy'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2012.

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• Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.

  Xi Jinping

  Party, Important, Unions

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• My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

  Andre Braugher

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.

  Brooke Burke

  Stars, Dark, Would Be

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• A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

  Emily Greene Balch

  World, Way, Reason

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

  Chris Cleave

  Beautiful, Thinking, Stronger

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• In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.

  Henry Ian Cusick

  World, Lost, Ideal World

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• If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Mean, Experts, Accepted

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• Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

  Bob Costas

  Humorous, Should Have, Quirky

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