Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.
The court has had to take a hard look at our resources and make difficult decisions balancing competing demands for resources. While our current allocation of resources to the Twin Peaks Court may not be ideal, it is an appropriate allocation when all factors are considered. While I realize this will be disappointing news to you, I can assure you the matter was given serious thought before a decision was made.
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.
God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
Everything is ideal to its parent.
Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.
However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.
We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.
You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home.