Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
Gustave Flaubert
I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.
Henry Flynt
A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
Bruce Forsyth
The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am... →
Charles Fort
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield
I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.
Janeane Garofalo
The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the... →
Bill Gates
My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.
Daryl Hannah
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
Francis Herbert Hedge