#ideal

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#anarchist #any #because #concluded #i

I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#always #closely #comfort #competing #costumes

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#ideals #nostalgia #real #truth #youth

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #life

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fashion #oscar-wilde #life

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#america #central #congress #declaration #express

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better. ↗

— Laura Linney

#better #each #either #force #get

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

— Walter Lippmann

#dangerous #himself #holds #honor #ideal

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ideals #imaginative #possible #understanding #which

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. ↗

— Susan Neiman

#beauty #idealism #philosophy #art