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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Jules Renard

Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

Karl Albrecht

You would have to cope with those make or break claims. As you can see, I am not in an ideal situation. I am in a terrible situation.

Frank Queen

That location is a natural crown for the downtown. It's an ideal river crossing.

Ron Weaver

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninger

Valencia, Seville or Madrid would make an ideal home for the team.

Fernando Torres

It's an ideal setting for students.

Jim Messmer

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Italo Calvino

Can you imagine children in crisis and all in one bedroom? It's not ideal.

Theresa Bizoe

It's not an ideal thing for a player to think, but I really didn't care if I would get injured in this game. That's how much I really wanted to win this one. That's how we were driven to this championship.

Ichiro Suzuki

This program is ideal for system builders.

Hal Speed

It's not an ideal solution, but it will work if everybody follows the basic criteria of food is in classrooms only on days when rooms are scheduled for cleaning.

Linda Flashinski

Everything is very ideal, right now. I'm starting to feel pretty excited that we're going to get this underway.

Dan Johnston

It would be nice to get an early mark, ... I'm in favour of going home early because it gives us ideal preparation for our clubs.

Lucas Neill

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

George Eliot

So the ideal thing would be to play a tactical game and have those selected go for the entire 90 minutes.

Charles Mhlauri

She's cold all the time. And down here, she loves it. I mean, 95 (degrees) here and that's perfect for her. It is an ideal climate for her.

Robert Putnam

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Octave Mirbeau

We've now got to keep our fingers crossed for Angus. Being already the club captain he is the ideal choice but can be a bit injury prone.

Martin Baker

The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehrer

An "ideal society" would be the graveyard of human greatness.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

I'm happy to not have a game this week. We're still banged up, and it's an ideal week not to have a midweek game.

Rudy Meredith

Someone told me about the house with a shop behind it. We came up and thought it was ideal.

Bob Mattison

That would be the ideal situation.

David Bayliss

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Sacha Guitry

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Arthur Ashe

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Carolyn Heilbrun

This was our first design and, with the cowboy theme, it is ideal for boys.

Lori Brumbach

That would be the ideal--get the family out of Tokyo and back to Kyoto.

Herbert Bix

The ideal is one case per CASA. ... We desperately need more volunteers.

Connie Haines

She was in a position that wasn't really ideal, but she's earned what she's gotten. She's talented and smart and she works really hard.

Brooke Smith

This is like the ideal liberal arts education.

Victoria Brinton

When one farm reaches the end of its ideal productive period, we go to another.

José Roberto Prado

I was a bit nervous as it was the first move in my career but it was an ideal move for me - I'm already from the area. To be honest I'm really excited.

Michael Carrick

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

Robert Plant

It seems like an ideal situation to have actors record together but it's not.

Carlos Saldanha

I was really happy with it. It's an ideal setting and it's cheaper for a family than a movie. They'll probably see me and my family here for a few games.

Danny Walker

Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation.

Adnan Agca

This is in no way an ideal solution to implement, but it does address the problem of overcrowding.

Dean Tistadt

A large part of the small-family ideal is achieved by eliminating girls.

Sabu George

It's pretty ideal, we should be sitting pretty.

Mark Freeman

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Milton R. Sapirstein

We were the ideal company for an ESOP. It doesn't work for everybody, but in our case it was a perfect fit.

Skip Musgraves

We found them to be very culturally flexible, but even to the point of helping a client down a path that is not ideal. This is a little different from U.S. providers.

Christopher Cartwright

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Walter Lippmann

Our argument is about our entire ideal, not just about the space within MedOne.

Catherine Kelly

Rooney's so strong he can do anything. He would be the ideal person to help you move house.

Michel Salgado

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

Rich Lowry

This is an ideal business for me and my brother. We get along great. We'd like to expand the business eventually and keep it in the family. We have a large, close family.

Danny Strickland

The tunnel is the problem. For people to come and go at their leisure would be ideal.

Manuel Hernandez

I'd like to say that the United States has been ideal in the way they have responded.

Jan Egeland

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

Carl Bernstein

There are mountains on both sides which makes it an ideal place for them to hide.

Matt Mcclure

It's an ideal, in my mind, that I bought into, and I'm not ready to let it go.

Linda Baker

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

I don't know how long we can keep this up. This is not what I would call an ideal fishing day.

Doug Hemmer

It's the ideal escapist entertainment. It's easy to play along with, and it's not really hard like a 'Jeopardy' or anything.

Rich Cronin

I think that a lot of people don't find their ideal place, and I did. I get to do what I love for a living.

Lars Tatom

It's been less than an ideal year, but under the circumstances he's made significant contributions.

Theo Epstein

The hand is amazing. It was probably ideal for fishing, for grabbing ... into those large fish.

Paul Sereno

I'd love to take a couple of days off. It would be nice if we can get it clinched before we go to Florida. That would be ideal to take two or three days off.

Chris Reitsma

This is not the ideal place to come back from the DL.

Shawn Estes

In fact, the park's geographical location is ideal and I can't see anything unlucky about the place at all.

Peter So

This organization embraced the American corporate ideal and would sell any drug that would turn a profit.

Tom Pickard

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Karl Kraus

Not all barns make good home conversions. But this is ideal. It's got a really unique configuration.

Brian Cooper

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

Ryan, who is 25 in the next couple of weeks, is the ideal age with plenty of experience at first grade.

Terry Matterson

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Owen D. Young

We were able to perform at a fairly high level, even though we were playing back-to-back [games] in less than ideal weather conditions.

Jess Wilk

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Miranda Richardson

I don't know if there's any ideal team to face. But any team that comes stumbling into the playoffs would be a good one.

Dan Hamhuis

Monogamy is ideal as a standard, but if you look around you, it's not the end result.

Justen Michael

Fs and Ds and incompletes aren't the American ideal and the American standard of excellence, not when it comes to protecting our people. We can do better. We must do better than that.

Timothy J. Roemer

You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

Leon Blum

[The] ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

John Sterling

They had some ideas from their parents. Who forms a political ideal between 12 and 15?

David Morley

When the balloon bursts, the ideal situation is the recovery team is under it.

Jessica Wallace

This is going to be an ideal opportunity for us. It will keep the company here. The name stays the same.

Hugh Quigley

It would be an ideal location for the LIFE Program.

Lori Doyle

We believe that in Daniel Craig we have found the ideal 21st century Bond.

Amy Pascal

Because we are in different offices the communication is not ideal.

Alfred Tanaka

We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.

Maureen Reagan

It's a coincidence of ideal conditions.

Christopher W. Landsea

That's when I realized that somebody like Rehnquist was absolutely ideal.

John Dean

The ceiling conforms to those elliptical guidelines. The ideal is no dead spots.

Robert Mahoney

I've found that a small town with a college is the ideal place to retire.

Charles Jackson

The flight may still be possible. But the jet streams are not ideal. It is a big concern.

Jon Karkow

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

Paul Conrad

I'm a proto-hippie. I was the model off of which they drew the overall ideal.

Chandler Laughlin

Despite the weather being obviously less than ideal, the conditions have been surprisingly good.

Heather Atwell

They're in a situation that's not really ideal for animals of this type.

Jeff Swanagan

It's out of our hands. But it's not the ideal situation.

Chris Chambliss

We have ideal dreams about educating people.

Bob Dixon

It's the ideal situation for recruitment for both students and employers.

Catrina Davis

It's the ideal situation to have any festival in one place. It's so much nicer for the filmmakers to have it in one place. It's more hospitable for them. It's fun for them to be around each other, and it's better for the public.

Ann Alexander

We have made an effort to get the message out there. But we're not working in ideal conditions here.

Kristen Meyer

A late change like this is not ideal.

Pat Howard

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

An oil price that is not too hot or not too cold is an ideal scenario for the FTSE 100 and that is exactly what we have got at the moment.

Robert Parkes

You could argue that lifecycle funds are the ideal investment for 401(k) investors throughout your lifecycle, given their broad diversification.

Steve Utkus

We are far from the ideal.

Jose Pekerman

It's not ideal, but we've done it before. It doesn't frighten us, but ... well, when there's a drop-off, you do have to avoid the edges. But it makes is a little more exciting.

Michael Mead

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Ninon de Lenclos

I think it's steep. But there always has to be a level of ideal.

Nancy Turner

These children are growing up with entertainment, not art. When I teach them I try to mix in a little of both, but I also teach them to be committed to an ideal.

Regie Gibson

In wintertime, we really are concerned because the risk is higher. The more the environment is ideal for the virus the more outbreaks we are expecting.

Dr. Noureddin Mona

The ideal privacy officer doesn't choose between the agency and the public, ... In the end, he works for the executive branch.

Paul Rosenzweig

It's certainly not the ideal situation, but we have good arms in the bullpen. We have some guys who can step up.

Tom Brookens

We find mature animals to be ideal pets. They usually work well because they are less excitable, and they make great companions.

Sara Labberton

There is nothing more important than the children and the youth of our community and it's an ideal spot for it.

Dave Stephenson

It's our ideal playground, Maybe we should have cut it back. But, no, it's our dream, and this is our ideal playground.

Monica Ka'auwai

Unless from the applications there is someone who is so clearly identified as the ideal candidate and we're all in agreement from the get-go, it's going to be a time-consuming process.

John Driscoll

It was a less-than-ideal process, but we have nonetheless submitted a bid. We're confident it's a strong bid.

Chris Mackin

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless forever.

Julia Ward Howe

I've always liked what they did. I wanted something more diverse. Strictly a rock club wouldn't be ideal.

Scott Labarbera

Helping renters, homeowners and relocating businesses find the ideal moving company is a natural extension of our business.

Scott Ingraham

In Sky Sports we have found the ideal platform to showcase this exciting package of events.

Digvijay Singh

In terms of timing, March is not necessarily ideal.

Takahide Kiuchi

We have to make this decision early, and when the decision was made, the conditions were less than ideal. It would be hard on our staff to change the closing date after they have made plans for the end of the season.

Jon Slaughter

This is an ideal merger for both companies.

Michael Roemer

When you lose, you always go looking for excuses, ... I'm the ideal scapegoat, but that doesn't bother me. It's not my problem. My conscience is clear.

Urs Meier

Care is an absolute. Prevention is the ideal.

Christopher P. Howson

It was the ideal venue.

Athan Crist

The zebra fish is ideal because you can freeze the entire fish. Normal freezing is not conducted because it would be too slow and cause ice crystals to form.

Manfred Auer

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Ellen Key

It's not the ideal bill for us, but we believe it will make a material difference.

David Waren

I have always been a huge fan of CDUK. This is my ideal job and I can't wait to get started.

Myleene Klass

It would seem ideal for a health club because people are accelerating their heart rates.

Eric Martinez

The competition is pretty fierce with everyone gearing up for the NCAA Championships. The conditions were less than ideal, but we are optimistic for tomorrow.

Eli Brown

We looked at each other and said at our age, why should we wait? I really honestly feel Bob would say Ken would be ideal for me.

Eileen Wiebke

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

E. F. Schumacher